Your Motherhood Mentor, Behavior Expert, and YouTube Host 

IT ALL STARTED IN COLLEGE. 

I was in school working on my degree, interning in the school system for part of my hours,  waiting tables a few nights a week, and also working with 2 different families through the state agency. As I was learning these behavior philosophies, strategies, and concepts.. I was also getting to apply them in real time. 

The teachers I worked with said I was a natural and even started to ask me for suggestions for their "problem students".  At the restaurant, I had regular customers with young kids that would request my table because they knew I could get them through a meal and out the door without a meltdown. The families I was working with started telling their friends about the work I was doing with their kids. How in just the first 30 days they couldn't believe the shift they were seeing in the kids. 

So then it happened.. I was getting monthly phone calls from agencies around my community asking for my help. 

  By the time I graduated, I had a wait list that was 6 months out. 

Learning and applying my skills in real time was the biggest blessing to my career. I was cementing these foundational concepts into the core of how I approach behaviors. 

YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT. 💣

I started recognizing a pattern. The child's specific behavior I was called in for would change, but then they would call me back for a different behavior.

Eventually I started teaching the parents my methods too. I took the behavior philosophies I had learned in school, and combined them with my own methods I had developed over the years of working with children. 

Teaching the parents how to parent ... was the key to longterm success for these kids. It helped bridge the gap of the work I was doing while I was there and the behaviors that were happening in the home when I wasn't there. 

THAT'S WHEN I REALIZED WHAT I HAD DONE. ✨

I had created something that was impacting every home I stepped in, but I was limited to how many families I could work with. On average I was spending 15 hours a week with these families. Taking the kid to a restaurant to work on the skills there. I would eat lunch with them at school to work on the skills there.  I would attend ball practice, church, clubs, play dates, grocery stores, dentist appointments and everywhere else the child was involved so I could work on their new behavior skills. The whole time I was also creating a playbook for the parent so they could do it after me and get the same results I did. 

BUT HOW COULD I HELP MORE FAMILIES???

Over the next 10 years I would continue this pattern with several more families, while also working for other schools and children's programs to learn the business side of things too. I wanted to figure out how to help MORE people without the limitation of 15 hours a week per family. 

During this time I also got married and then we had our first daughter. So now I was getting a completely new perspective of behavior management.  But I noticed something. About the time my daughter turned 2, I found myself using the EXACT method I had taught to other moms for a decade. 

Then I noticed something else.. all my new mom friends were coming to me for advice. We would get together for play dates and the moms would start talking about some things they were struggling with. So I would give them my secrets and strategies, they would try them, and they would find success. 

I REALIZED THIS ONE THING...

 I didn't need 15 hours a week with each family. Just an hour of talking and giving teachable examples each week at playdates was making a massive impact on my friends and their kiddos. Most of the time one mom would bring something up that the rest of the moms needed help with too. 

They would ask about things like bedtime routines, leaving playgrounds and parties without a meltdown, getting their kids off of the devices without a fight, disciplining the disrespect in public, getting through a family meal without whining, and how to navigate tattle telling/ sibling arguments.

 The best part? The same strategies and method I used with the families through the agencies, worked for my own parenting needs and the needs of my friends. 

And one night at a bonfire in my back yard, my friend asked, "Can I pay you to teach me all this stuff that my kid needs?" Then 3 more friends chimed in.. "Me too. Me too. Yea I need this."

THAT'S WHEN I DECIDED I HAD TO TEACH THIS METHOD TO OTHER MOMS. 💕

Many moms I work with are incredible mothers and love their children deeply.  They are great at showing up and doing all the things... but they're not great at managing their child's behaviors. So they end up yelling, threatening, bargaining, or even giving in and giving up. 

The mom who has it all together is not the most calm, in control and connected mother. THAT MOM with the best behavior management strategies is!  When you have a METHOD to follow, you can parent peacefully and raise children who obey, grow up to be successful,  and continue to have strong family bonds. 

Which is what you really want, right?

Working with moms is fun. Helping moms completely transform the behavior dynamics in their home and the future outcomes for their children... is so fulfilling.

What's also fulfilling is breaking negative family cycles.  IT ENDS WITH ME. My children will experience a peaceful home with clear expectations, and someone that follows through and follows up.  

Momma Friend- I am speaking it over my children and yours.. that they can grow up learning how to communicate without yelling and without being yelled at. That they can have the confidence to express their thoughts and ideas, while also having the respect to listen and obey their parents. We will have peaceful homes, an abundance of sweet childhood memories, and children that grow up to be wildly successful adults in their careers, faith, relationships, and future family.

All of this is possible because YOU'RE THAT MOM. 💕