Category Discipline

Want To Know Your Child’s Strengths?
Find Clues in 12 Common Misbehaviors

Is Your Child’s Misbehavior Actually a Gift? | Ep. 128
What if underneath your child’s misbehavior was a good gift? Sound too good to be true? It’s not! Connected Families teaches this idea as a “Gift Gone Awry.” This gift may not always come out in a helpful way, but…
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Special Time With Your Child: 3 Kind Steps to Make the Ending Special Too
It’s great to have a goal to spend more special time with your child, but…not only is it sometimes painfully difficult to even find five minutes of concentrated one-on-one time but let’s talk about the transition back. Have you ever…

Family Activities to Prepare for Easter | Ep. 127
a conversation with Laurie Christine

Why Is My Child So Angry All the Time? | Ep. 126
Are you trying to understand your child’s frequent frustration or angry eruptions? Do you find yourself turning to the internet to ask, “Why is my son so angry with me?” or “Why is my daughter so angry all the time?”…
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Practical Tips To Turn Uncontrolled Emotional Outbursts Into Big Wins
Your child is struggling. Again. They are frustrated and unload their stress on everyone around them in an uncontrolled emotional outburst. It might be a classic toddler tantrum or an older child stuck in explosive patterns. How can you turn…

Empowering Your Differently Wired Child | Ep. 124
Do you have a child who is wired differently? You’ve probably felt frustrated or discouraged at times about how to support your child through daily routines or going to school. It may be challenging to know what your child needs…
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I Resent My Child
5 ideas to get to the other side of resentment

Morning Sensory Dysregulation
How to turn morning meltdowns into happy starts for your highly sensitive child.

Introduce Your Kids to the Connected Families Framework
A five-session activity guide