"It's time to brush teeth."
"It's time to put on shoes."
"It's time to get in the bath."
With each request, your 3-year-old looks at you, grins, and runs away laughing or flat-out says "NO!" and refuses to move.
Every single daily task becomes a 20-minute negotiation that ends with you physical...
A mom during a coaching call described her nightly dinner battle: "If my 5-year-old son doesn't eat enough lunch at school, I make him finish dinner before dessert. He just refuses, gets upset, and hits me."
The problem was that she was fighting a battle she could never win.
You cannot force fo...
A parent in my coaching community recently told me something that broke my heart.
"We finally had a breakthrough. Four, maybe five days in a row where my son didn't hit or bite anyone. I thought we'd turned a corner. Then my mom came to visit for the weekend, and it all fell apart. The hitting ...
Last Saturday, I started my toddler's bedtime routine around 4 PM. We went upstairs for bath time. At first, he didn't want to take a bath.
"NO BATH!" he screamed.
So I leaned into what he loves: CARS. "What cars need a car wash today?" I asked. Immediately, he grabbed his blue airplane (yes, t...
I once worked with a dad - let’s call him Amir - who was getting daily emails from his son's teacher. His previously well-behaved 5-year-old had suddenly become the kid who was pushing, hitting, and telling everyone he didn't want to be at school.
Amir was exhausted. His family had just moved t...
"Every morning, it's the same thing," Priya told me during our coaching call, and I could hear that familiar exhaustion in her voice that so many parents carry. "Zara stands in the preschool line, looks at me with this little smirk, and says 'I don't want to go to school today' in this sad voic...
Last week, my 7-year-old was sprawled on our bedroom floor in full meltdown mode over a shirt. Her and her sister had a disagreement about a shirt and her world had officially ended. I listened, I problem-solved, I offered alternatives.
But 30 minutes before we needed to leave, she was still on...
A mom's message stopped me cold: "My daughter is only 7 and the back talking has increased. I notice it more in the mornings and when she is tired and dysregulated. I try to have a lot of patience with her but I'm not going to lie at times I get loud when I correct her. The main thing I do is t...
During a recent coaching call, a dad shared something that made my heart sink because I knew exactly what he was going through.
His 5-year-old son was having explosive tantrums at home over things like wanting a second helping of dessert. Full-on screaming, stomping, demanding behavior that lef...
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As summer winds down and those back-to-school displays start appearing everywhere, I know what might be stirring in your heart.
While other guides focus on lunch boxes and supply lists, I want to talk about something deeper: The emotional landscape your child is navigating, and how you can be...
Let’s just get to the real question:
If my child knows how to do something like pack their bag, brush their teeth, tie their shoes, why do I still have to hover, remind, or step in?
Why do I end up sounding like a broken record while they stare at the dog? Or start dancing. Or wander around wit...
There’s a version of me that shows up in the mornings I don’t particularly like.
She’s sharp. Rushed. Repeating herself. She’s got a mental checklist in her head and a stopwatch in her chest.
Brush your teeth. Wash your face. Put on your sunscreen. Again. Again. Again.
It’s like my calm voice c...
