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When Your Child Does Something Stupid: Try Curious Instead of Furious

My children have done things that make me feel furious. Bryson, when he was a new driver, he had an 11:30 PM curfew. Well, one night, very soon after he started driving, he didn’t get home until 1:00 AM He did call us and say he was going to meet his brother Carson at In …

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Would my Life Coaching Skills Stack Up Against My Son Getting Kidnapped?

I had been a life coach for a few years when Devon was 16. I had a lot of tools by then, and our relationship was pretty good, much better than it had been years before. However, he still was the most challenging of my children. And would sometimes create things, maybe not intentionally, but …

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Your child having a tantrum, doesn’t mean you need to have one too!

This works with all ages of children. However, it looks different at different ages. Here’s the thing that makes this so tricky. Logically, we know, yeah, if my child is having a tantrum, I don’t need to. Our Challenging Children Know Exactly How to Push our Buttons! But our challenging kids know exactly how to …

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Healing Birth Trauma Shifted my Son from Angry to Calm

For 2023, I have decided to shift the focus of my podcast to Parenting Challenging Children. the reason why I’m doing this is because so many of my clients come to me because they’re struggling with their children. And I thought I’d make some episodes and do some interviews with some of my clients and …

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