🎧A mom speaks: child-led parenting, ADHD and healthy choices

Are you raising a child who is neurodivergent, or are you curious about child-led parenting? Creative manager & recruiter and coach Benita Conde shares the lessons, challenges and rewards of raising a child who marches to the beat of his own drum. She discusses seeking aligned educational spaces, navigating societal expectations, honouring her son’s intrinsic motivation, and how to view labels like ADHD.

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In ep 250 of the weekly podcast series Calm, Clear & Helpful, Benita Conde - advertising industry expert, coach, consultant and founder at Create Radical Love - touches on

• getting sober before embarking on her motherhood journey

• her son’s early years in New York City, including daycare and schooling challenges

• the realization that “my child is not me”

• the move from New York City to Richmond, Virginia

• free, online public schooling, with parents acting as learning coaches for their child

• educational circumstances conducive to concentration

• Benita’s view of labels such as ADHD

• listening to your child ‘as the whole human’

• being open-minded about achieving milestones

• motivating from compassion and understanding rather than forcing

• child-led parenting: trusting her son and his timing, and following his lead in terms of his interests

• the fact that worrying about a child communicates a lack of trust

• helping a child create a life they enjoy living  

• ADHD and the reward centres of the brain.

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Also listen to Benita explain how to access your intuition, discern between fear and excitement, and use your intuition as a strategic decision-making tool.

More about Benita

Benita Conde is the founder of Create Radical Love, a life coaching and consulting approach for people who want to radically love their whole life experience, not some of the compartmentalized parts. She also works with creative businesses, educational institutions and industry groups as a coach, consultant, workshop facilitator and speaker.

Benita is an advertising industry expert with 20 years of experience. She held leadership roles in resource management, project management, and recruiting and talent development at agencies.

She has been through the coaching process as a client and is 19 years sober. Her first professional role was that of classical ballet dancer in NYC. Benita is based in Richmond, Virginia.

Website: https://www.createradicallove.com/

LinkedIn: Benita Conde - Create Radical Love

Instagram: @benita_conde

Facebook: Benita Conde

If high-functioning autism features in your experience as a parent, you can read “The grief no-one talks about” and listen to “A plea for understanding and inclusion,” both featuring social worker Mariette Cawood.

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Original music by Mart-Marie Snyman

Thumbnail image: Pexels. Model used.

Photograph of Benita Conde: supplied