Unschooling Series with Paige Carter (Parent, Advocate, Community Leader, Business Owner): Week 6 - Recovery, Stability, Then Expansion: Trusting A Child’s Pace
About this episode
The episode discusses the importance of trusting a child's pace in parenting, particularly for children with PDA, and emphasizes the recovery-stability-expansion arc in family dynamics.
Send us Fan Mail Say yes to slower. That simple pivot—away from pressure and toward real choice—turned a chaotic season into a week with fewer meltdowns, easier car rides, and a hydrotherapy session full of laughter. We open up about parenting a PDA child with low demand strategies, how we detach from outcomes, and why autonomy is not a luxury but a lifeline for regulation. We dive into the recovery–stability–expansion arc and why families often rush past the stability phase. Fresh from the ...
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Host: Dana Baltutis
Guest: Paige Carter
Topics covered
- unschooling
- parenting
- autonomy
- PDA child
- low demand strategies
- family dynamics
Keywords
- unschooling
- parenting
- PDA
- autonomy
- family stability
- low demand
- meltdowns
- hydrotherapy
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