
222: Managing the Overwhelm in Neurodiverse Families, with Kelly Fradin, M.D.
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The Importance of Emotional Intelligence in Parenting
I see so many families who are like, okay, we have this diagnosis. And your kid will go to school all day and then you're running them to OT and maybe play therapy or behavioral therapy. Do you want to speak to that a little bit about where do we find that balance between doing the things that we know will help but not doing too much? I think it's really essential because my son is somewhere in the neurodiverse spectrum of things. He doesn't have any diagnoses. But I learned actually a lot through being his parent that he needed at least an hour of downtime in order to regulate himself after school. We could have maybe gotten to being more able to self-
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