Keisha came to the group coaching call exhausted. Her 6-year-old daughter Maya had started pushing back on everything. At breakfast, when Keisha said no more screen time, Maya crossed her arms and said, "That's not fair! You're on your phone all the time!"
Keisha felt her face get hot. In her h...
I once worked with a mom, we’ll call her Carmen, who had a 5-year-old daughter named Naomi. Carmen reported struggling with bedtime anxiety. Every night, Naomi would spiral.
"What if there's a fire? What if someone breaks in? What if you forget to pick me up from school tomorrow?"
The questions...
I received a question during a coaching call that I hear constantly:
"My 7-year-old doesn't want to do her homework. It's not mandatory at her school, but I think it's good practice. She did homework in kindergarten, but we stopped over the summer and now I'm having trouble getting back into th...
As we wrap up 2025, I wanted to take a pause from tactical strategies (like scripts and tips) and spend some time discussing something more foundational - The beliefs that quietly shape how we parent.
We all have limiting beliefs. Every single one of us. They're part of being human. They develo...
I could hear the exhaustion in a dad's voice during our coaching call:
"My 4-year-old hits us more now when she doesn't agree with something or wants to say no to a request. If she doesn't get the treat she wants, she immediately goes to smack me. If I give her choices and she doesn't want eith...
I've been thinking a lot about my kids this holiday season.
About how much STUFF they have. How different their childhood is from mine. How they've never known what it's like to worry about money or food or keeping the heat or lights on.
I have vivid memories of playing Jenga in the dark next t...
It happened on the walk into school.
Your 5-year-old spotted another child and said, loudly, "Why doesn't she have hair??"
You froze. Your face got hot. You wanted to disappear.
Did the other parent hear? Did the child hear? What do you even say right now?
You feel conflicted because on one end...
I just lived through this last week with my 2-year-old son.
We were at the end of our bedtime routine, already past the point of exhaustion, and he melted down over stickers. Not because the stickers mattered, but because his little brain was maxed out and had nothing left to give. When I final...
“Your brain is going to tell you you’re being mean. That doesn’t make the boundary wrong.”
That’s what I told two parents on a recent group coaching call. And I want you to hear it too.
Because right now, the parenting world is caught in a tug-of-war between two camps: gentle parenting and FAFO...
I don’t usually talk about my weight. But today I’m going to.
After my son was born in December 2022, I hit rock bottom.
He was a week overdue. By that point I was so sick and miserable I could barely walk. I remember going to the hospital for the induction and feeling like my body was giving o...
"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...
Mike was trying to get his 5-year-old daughter ready for bed when she completely lost it. She didn't want to brush her teeth, didn't want to put on pajamas, and was melting down about everything. When he gently but firmly guided her toward the bathroom, she spun around and hit him in the chest ...
