The Motivator Molecule

To truly change children’s behaviors, parents need to understand how to boost dopamine in natural and positive ways.

Situational Awareness

It is essential to teach children to be perceptive and educate them on situational awareness skills to improve their safety.

Parent SKILLZ 6: Nurturing

Nurturing means changing the behavior, not the child. Look at their mistakes as opportunities for education versus punishment.

Parent SKILLZ 5: Edutainment

Be the parent your child needs you to be. When you edutain, you help your child learn in a behavior that they embrace.

Parent SKILLZ 4: Consistency

Be as consistent and reliable as possible with your child as you can, regardless of your mood, and they will learn to be consistent and reliable with you, too.

Parent SKILLZ 3: Connection

One of the most important things that you can do as a parent is establish a connection with your child. In fact, children need connection more than anything else.

Parent SKILLZ 2: Attunement

Improving your attunement skills will allow you to create a more patient and understanding relationship with your child.
Your child will have a variety of great days, bad days, and everything in between – just like we do as adults.

Utilizing Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivators, adding the tips in our new blog to your parenting tool kit can help you make the best of your child’s behaviors and moods…plus get what needs to be done, done!

Parent SKILLZ 1: Adaptability

Adaptability is about how you respond to your child, especially when things do not go as planned.

Your child will have a variety of great days, bad days, and everything in between – just like we do as adults.

Utilizing Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivators, adding the tips in our new blog to your parenting tool kit can help you make the best of your child’s behaviors and moods…plus get what needs to be done, done!

Hello Spring & Hello Opportunity

The powerful promise of new beginnings is once again upon us! Outside our front doors, the clear blue skies with warm, golden sunshine, emerging green grass, budding trees and blossoms all welcome us to a new season of play, joy, fun, laughter and precious memories just waiting to be made. Spring is such a special […]

Should I Worry?

While it’s not always easy to discriminate between typical teenage moodiness and depression, observing behaviors that are continuous and persistent are cause for concern.