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 ...

People in this episode

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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