Help Me I'm a Parent: Behavior hacking, Understanding kids

Boost lesson retention from five percent to ninety percent by moving from passive lectures to participatory learning through discussion, practice, and teaching, via the learning to launch group.

Navigate the help me i’m a parent series with a GPS-inspired framework; review your position, address root causes, and follow a practical path from urgent relief to readiness and beyond.

Take this course as a standalone or with the series, gaining insight into your child’s mind, your mind, and behavior patterns while understanding moods, true age, and why kids act.

Explore the human voyage from birth through the childhood journey to adulthood, explaining the cognition tower framework and its stages to understand behavior and parenthood.

Explore the stages and phases of the parenthood voyage—from self and relationship mastery to parenting, family management, empty nesting, and major life transitions.

Explore what drives behavior by unpacking Plato's three sources—desire, emotion, and knowledge—and examine how their combinations shape how kids act in everyday life.

Explore an increasingly popular behavior framework that blends neuroscience, self-help traditions, and neuro-linguistic programming concepts like cognitive distortions and meta programs to understand and guide kids' behavior for parenting.

Explore the behavior formula, comparing the ABC model by Dr. Ellis with the IPO model, showing how input through cognitive distortions and beliefs shapes output behaviors.

Explore how nature, nurture, and the mystery of mind shape behavior, from DNA and environment to the unexplained, and how caretakers influence the human voyage.

Explore the power of belief through stories, the placebo effect, and how belief can alter possibility and drive behavior.

Learn how motivation shapes behavior using William Glasser's choice theory and five core needs, from survival and safety to love, power, freedom, and fun, with Maslow and Robbins perspectives.

Complete an active assignment on match and mismatch, grouping similar needs from Glasser, Maslow, Robins, and star family coaching, then simplify ideas into clear love, connection, and belonging categories.

Explore toward and away motivation, carrot and whip, shaping children's behavior through rewards and punishments, and learn to apply self-examination to parenting and daily life.

Learn how emotion energy connection explains how energy flux and mood shape child behavior, from babies to teens, across growth stages.

Understand why children misbehave by examining intentions and behavior as a skill that can be taught, and consider energy, sleep, sugar, thoughts, and needs, using a checklist to guide responses.

Explore how children cycle between equilibrium and growing pains across early development, from weekly infant swings to yearly shifts, using a chart to identify when behavior reflects growth.

Improve family communication by applying the ladder of inference: convert thoughts into messages, consider how mood and cognition shape reception, and tailor delivery to a child's level.

Use the ladder of inference to analyze how mood, message, and method of communication influence reception. Explore adult-to-adult communication and how text messaging or email can hinder understanding and behavior.

Understand the five main parenting styles and their impact on children. Identify how helicopter, permissive, authoritarian, and uninvolved styles shape outcomes, and why authoritative parenting supports healthier growth.

Explore the mental emotional mind and how thoughts, feelings, and fear shape behavior, with tools like the MI elevator and the cognition tower to foster child self-control.

Unpack cognitive distortions such as black-and-white thinking, story filtering, optimism and pessimism bias, jumping to conclusions, emotional reasoning, rigid rule keeping, and overgeneralizing to improve parenting and modeling behavior.

Unpack meta programs like towards and away motivations, external vs internal frame of reference, and match versus mismatch to improve parenting by modeling desired behavior.

Explore emotional intelligence and its role in parent-child communication. Apply Gottman's five-step emotional coaching to help children recognize emotions, validate feelings, label them, and solve behavior challenges.

Bridge the upstairs and downstairs cognitive realms of the cognition tower by teaching children to name emotions and connect feelings with thoughts, fostering decision making, emotion regulation, and empathy.

Explore the cognition tower and cognition construct, a life mastery coaching framework for parenting and family dynamics that translates developmental theory into a quick tool to guide children.

Explore biological timelines and charts to map childhood development, linking milestones like teeth eruption, walking, language, and puberty to cognitive stages described by Erickson, Keegan, and Massey.

Explore Piaget's four-stage cognitive development timeline—sensory motor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational—and how these stages explain children's behavior from infancy to adolescence, aiding parenting.

Explore Erick Erikson's five stages of childhood development, linking trust, autonomy, initiative, competency, and identity to ego psychology and the cognition tower for understanding behavior.

Explore Robert Kagan's six-stage developmental timeline chart to see how incorporated, impulsive, imperial, interpersonal, institutional, and inter individual stages shape self-awareness, empathy, values, and children's behavior for parents.

Explore Massey's three stages of childhood development—imprinting, modeling, and socialization—and how parental modeling and external influences shape behavior from birth through puberty.

Explore major theories of child and adolescent development, including Loevinger’s ego stages, Kohlberg’s moral stages, Havighurst’s task development, and Levin’s cycles of development, plus the idea of developmental age.

Develop the cognition tower to help you understand why children think, feel, and act, address cognitive distortions, and tailor parenting strategies using developmental theories.

Explore how chronological age differs from true or actual age, and how different cognitive levels influence behavior from childhood through adulthood, challenging fixed age expectations.

Understand how puberty timing varies by developmental age, with early bloomers, in-sync peers, and late bloomers, and how nature-nurture influences pace by up to three years.

Explore how chronological age differs from a child's true age and how the calendar and clock shape maturity expectations, including early and late bloomers.

Explore how relative age within a year shapes a child's development, behavior, and true age, influencing schooling, sports performance, and early life experiences.

explains maturation age as a measure of intellectual and emotional development distinct from biological growth, highlighting how physical size can mislead about a child's true age and behavior.

Explore experiential age as the true age reflected by accumulated life experiences that shape skill development, self-esteem, and behavior, while opportunities, freedoms, and pressures influence what we do.

Explore developmental age, nature, nurture, and mystery, showing how early, late, and in-sync bloomers affect childhood and adulthood, and guiding parenting toward true developmental needs.

Review how to set goals, map steps, and adjust plans to guide your parenting journey. Apply insights on behavior, cognitive development, and motivational factors to help your child thrive.

Gain a clearer grasp of why children behave the way they do by exploring biological, hunger, mood, and environment factors, plus parenting styles. See how perspectives and beliefs shape behavior.

Gain quick access to frameworks and charts that explain why your child behaves the way they do. Use biological and developmental charts to assess their current developmental stage.

Explore how cognition shapes thinking, helping parents understand how the brain processes sensory input, filters data, updates beliefs, and expresses them as behavior.

Understand how your mind and behavior operate to better understand yourself, your parenting partner, and your children, then pause before reacting to craft thoughtful, beneficial responses.

Explore biological factors and developmental age, and examine nature, nurture, and mystery to understand children's behavior; assess charts, timelines, and eight developmental theorists to redefine parenting readiness.

Update your parenting map with goal eight insights, review notes and conversations, and forge an optimal plan for your parenting journey using the course frameworks.

Understand developmental age concepts and balance nature and nurture to guide parenting decisions. Embrace flexible age ranges beyond charts, discuss with friends, and pursue optimal parenting mastery through this course.