Parenting regrets and giving yourself grace | Everyone Gets a Juice Box

Today I speak with a dad with some regrets. First, Dion's son was diagnosed with autism at age three and then his daughter in high school at the time got an ADHD diagnosis. Soon after, Dion himself also He found himself simultaneously looking back on how he parented his daughter, looking forward on how he wanted to parent his son, and looking in the mirror. And I realized, you know, as I look back, some of the mistakes that I might have made. And I knew that with raising my son, I didn't want to make those same mistakes. I knew that with this new information of parenting a child that is neurode divergent, I had to be more sensitive. open-minded. I had to educate myself more because I grew up in the 80s and 90s and especially in black communities, we didn't have diagnosis of ADHD. We didn't accept often times that there may be medicines to help us, to treat us, to give us the things that we needed to thrive and to help us survive those rough ears.