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Stop playing behavior whack-a-mole with your child’s most baffling behaviors by finally addressing the real problem!  This 10-week course will teach you what behavior really is, and how to change it. Raising Kids with Big Baffling Behaviors: A Course for Parents is based on the science of being relationally, socially, and behaviorally human.  This course will make your child’s behavior make sense - even the ones that don’t.  This is a no-shame, no blame approach to parenting!  

This course will benefit all parents but is especially offered for parents of kids with vulnerable nervous systems and baffling behaviors. This includes children with a history of trauma and toxic stress (including foster care and adoption), as well as children who are neurodivergent, gifted, have sensory processing differences, or neuroimmune disorders.  You might not know why your child has a vulnerable nervous system, and that’s OK.  This course is for you, too.  

The three core tenets of Raising Kids with Big Baffling Behaviors are:

  1. Behavior is just a clue.  It’s what we see on the outside that gives us some information about what might be happening on the inside.
  2. We all need connection to survive.  If your child is behaving in a way that makes us not want to be connected to them, we can pause and ask “What’s up with that?”
  3. Regulated, connected kids who feel safe behave well.  To change children’s behaviors, we will look for ways to increase regulation, connection, and felt-safety.

 

THIS COURSE IS RIGHT FOR YOU IF YOU ARE…

  • Ready to move past behavior intervention techniques
  • Longing to find a way to see your child’s true self….even if they never show it to you
  • Willing to do the hard work of looking inward to move onward

 

THIS COURSE MIGHT NOT BE THE BEST FIT IF YOU ARE…

  • Looking for the right behavior intervention to change your child’s behaviors
  • Most comfortable with consequence-based parenting interventions
  • Not interested in considering and addressing the underlying cause of difficult behaviors
  • Parenting a child with chronically dangerous behaviors (violence, aggression, substance abuse, sexually acting out, self-injury, etc.) 

 

 

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Access this free 30-minute webinar to see what the course is all about.  You'll meet Amy, and get a taste of the material we'll cover.

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Hi!  I'm Amy.

 

And I am a clinical social worker specializing in helping children, parents, and families learn new ways of relating, collaborating, and connecting with each other. 

I have over 25 years of experience supporting children, adolescents, and parents in increasing resilience and regulation, and decreasing meltdowns and mettle.  I have helped hundreds of families just like yours, and I'm eager to help yours, too.

I have extensive training in child psychotherapy, parent coaching, and common developmental challenges (sleep coaching, toilet training, picky eating).  I work with children directly through individual and group therapy, and I work with parents directly through parent coaching. 

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What Are Other Parents Saying?

"All of the content was so helpful and the framework of owl/watchdog/possum helped give access to the neuroscience research on why parenting from a place of connection is so critical. The mix of accessible research coupled with concrete strategies for parents to try was just right, and the examples/videos helped make the content concrete. I found it helpful to have the class divided into a "lecture" portion and then open discussion, and as our group bonded over the course of weeks, the discussions became a place to allow ourselves to be honest and vulnerable with one another about the challenges we face in parenting. Amy listened nonjudgmentally to parents and allowed space for us to express some big feelings around places of disequilibrium that we were coming up against as our beliefs and mental models of parenting were challenged with new information and ways of thinking. Just as important as the content for me was the connection with other parents. This group felt really special and I looked forward to meeting every week. We shared questions, frustrations, funny stories, and successes and gave each other the opportunity to feel seen and heard. We do not get enough of this type of connection with other adults and really valued it."
 

"I rewatched each lesson of Section 2 multiple times! Amy's lessons in this section elevated concrete tips and this is especially useful because in the heat of a Watchdog moment, it is easy to forget and (hard to) stay grounded. Practical tips are key!  Also, the discussion portion of each lesson is very valuable to dig in further on questions that have shared themes for full group (sibling dynamics, hitting, verbal aggression)."

"The science, the other participants, mostly your commitment to the validity of this parenting approach all gave me the safety to try to shift to using this approach in my life/home. Very impressed with the amount of time you left for discussion and how much space you allowed for it to go where it needed to. This choice felt like a big blow to the ableism our kids face in a society that insists on rushing and was very centering for me. It helped build my owl brain so I could use it with my kid."