Since your course cohort is complete, you now have access to this most recent version of the curriculum. Here's an overview of what we focused on each week.
No one is peaceful all the time. But when you commit yourself to regulating your own emotions, connecting with your child, and coaching instead of controlling, your home and your heart get a lot more peaceful. In this session, I'll introduce you to the 3 big ideas that will change your life as a parent and shift your family, over the next 12 weeks, to less drama and more love.
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Children depend on us to help them self-regulate, so your ability to calm yourself is your most important parenting skill. In this session, I'll give you tools to notice when you're getting dangerously close to the edge, and powerful practices to return yourself to calm. If you're a yeller, here's where you take your Vow of Yellibacy.
Available Jan 5, 2020
Parenting is 80% connection and only 20% guidance, because until children feel connected they have no reason to follow our guidance. In this session, you'll learn best practices for staying connected with your child, and specific tools for reconnecting after tough times. We'll also explore the power of play, since it's one of the best ways to connect with children.
Available Jan 12, 2020
In this session, you'll learn how emotions work, including some secrets about anger that most people don't know. You'll learn how to how to help your child empty a full emotional backpack and how to heal even the most turbulent emotions. We'll practice using empathy, your magic wand, to give your child's brain the best possible environment to grow in self-regulation.
Available Jan 19, 2020
Just what does it mean to coach instead of control? In this session, we'll discuss why children misbehave and what the research says about the best way to guide your child and teach the important lessons. You'll learn how children develop self-discipline and impulse control and why time-in works while time-out doesn't. We'll practice setting limits that stick, without power struggles or drama.
Available Jan 26, 2020
You know those problems that always seem to blow up in your face and land your family in the breakdown lane, just when you don't have the resources to deal with them? You can avoid most of those surprises with preventive maintenance. This week we'll explore the power of routines, empathy, special time, scheduled meltdowns and other preventive maintenance practices, and how to put them to work at your house.
Available Feb 2, 2019