Raise Your Child, Not Your Voice

Discover the joys and realities of parenting, from bonding and guiding growth to navigating challenging days with humility, compassion, and frustration tolerance.

Join Rosie for a review of the joys and realities of parenting, offering practical insights aligned with raising your child without raising your voice.

Discover that parenting skills can be learned, and learn to cope with stress without anger or guilt, enabling you to raise your child without raising your voice.

Rosie identifies the big mistake in parenting and offers approaches that align with raising your child, not your voice.

Outline developmental periods from infancy to the school years, highlighting intellectual, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral growth for ages 4 to 12 and practical parenting insights.

Rosie reviews developmental periods for parents, providing practical insights to support child growth without raising your voice.

Explore how a child thinks, feels, and acts, and how language, immediate emotions, and rewards shape behavior through modeling and feedback.

Explore how thinking, feeling, and doing intersect in parenting, guided by Rosie, to raise your child without raising your voice.

Explore how genetics and environment shape behavior and personality, contrasting instinctive vs learned actions, conditioning and modeling, and the roles of genotype, phenotype, and trauma in child development.

Explore the big five personality traits—extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness—and how genetics and environment shape your child's behavior.

Explore how nature and environment shape behavior through instinct, conditioning, and modeling. Compare innate child drives with learned skills, temperament, and genotype versus phenotype within parental influence.

Explore practical approaches to understanding the causes of child behavior with Rosie, offering calm, effective strategies aligned with raising your child, not your voice.

Distinguish needs from wants to understand what motivates your child's behavior. Learn to manage frustration by categorizing drives as needs, wants, obstacles, deficiencies, and conflicts.

Rosie reviews how motivation, needs, wants, and frustration influence a child's behavior, guiding parents to respond calmly and raise their child without raising their voice.

Explore the three emotion categories—positive, moderate or rationally negative, and excessive or irrationally negative—and learn to recognize signals, manage intensity, and model rational responses for effective parenting.

Practice reviewing emotions with Rosie to understand and respond to your child's feelings, supporting the approach of raising your child, not your voice.

Explore the ABC model of emotion control, developed by Dr. Albert Ellis, showing how activating events, beliefs, and consequences shape a parent's feelings and reactions.

Discover how the a-b-c model of emotion control helps parents guide children's emotions without raising their voices, enabling calm communication and confident parenting.

Learn four steps to calmer parenting: become aware of and skeptical about your thinking, identify upset thoughts, dispute irrational ideas, and practice new thinking daily with your child.

Learn to replace irrational thoughts with rational, flexible thinking in emotion-generating situations with your child, then practice new thinking daily to reduce distortions and improve family interactions.

Rosie helps parents identify and change irrational thinking patterns to improve communication with their child.