SUMMARY - In this episode, Eileen walks through a common fear that many parents hold, which is that if they fully accommodate their child or teen, that they will prevent their child from growing, developing and maturing.
TAKEAWAYS
- Why, exactly, we provide accommodations to kids, teens, and young adults who have brain-based differences
- Why accommodations are the path towards less challenging behavioral symptoms
- It is a normal part of learning to parent from a Brain First lens to have a concern that you (the parent) are over-accommodating your child or teen
- We all need adequate support in our various environments to be able to keep our thinking brain on-line, stay in our window of tolerance and grow in our skills
- When kids live with brain-based differences and a fragile nervous system, they need even greater accommodations to experience felt-safety and navigate their world successfully, due to their unique neurobiology
- Accommodations do not stunt growth, they are the very thing that promotes growth and helps our kids mature
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