Your Job is to Meet Your Child with Karen Mabie

Parenting a neurodivergent young person into adulthood can be a messy and challenging process.We appreciate Karen coming on our show and sharing her perspectives and insights as an educational consultant and mother to an autistic adult daughter.She is passionate about helping young people, and her perspectives from her professional and personal experiences can help us better support our neurodivergent young people and avoid some of the common pitfalls.Karen is someone who “tells it like it is” and knows what she is talking about. Some great gems of wisdom you won’t want to miss from this episode.What You'll Learn from this Episode:The important gains in understanding and research about trauma in the last 20 years.Why your job is to meet your child and what that means.What every functioning adult does and what neurodivergents need to learn.How to transition from being your kid’s advocate to them being their own advocate as a young adult.Why the work we do isn’t about fixing them and what it is about.Featured on the Show:Join our email list so you can get our free 3-part video course: Start Parenting Confidently With 3 Simple StepsVisit NeuroDevMentoring.com to learn more about our specialized co-ed mentoring program for neurodivergent young adults.Follow us on facebook and Debbie on Instagram! Join the conversation and comment to share your insights from this episode.You can find Karen Mabie at: theschoolsolution.comKaren’s contact info: [email protected] /847.242.0865Independant Educational Consultant’s Association (IECA)👉 If this episode resonated with you, we’d love for you to leave a quick 5 star review sharing your favorite takeaway. It helps us create more meaningful content for listeners like you. 📩 Want more insights and practical tools? Be sure to join our email list for inspiration and updates. 🔵 For deeper support, consider joining our NDM Circle Community at NDM.Circle.so—a space for parents and professionals navigating the complexities of parenting neurodivergent young people.

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