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Helping adoptive and foster parents find brain-based solutions for challenging behaviors so they can laugh more and yell less.
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The Adoption Connection Podcast
You will gain confidence in your parenting and hope for your family's future.
We offer hope, share wisdom, and mentor you along the way. You are not alone.
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You feel like you've tried everything but...
- Nothing seems to work.
- Your kids don't trust you, and you don't trust them either.
- The behaviors seem to be escalating (lying, stealing, defiance...oh my!)
- The more you try to connect, the more they keep pushing you away.
- Shame seems to have the upper hand.
- You can't figure out what's normal teen and what's ADHD, FASD, RAD, trauma, etc.
- You're running out of patience and compassion.
- You just can't seem to win.
Imagine a world where...parenting challenging kids didn't include chaos and drama and you knew exactly what to do no matter what crazy behavior you were faced with.
Increase Understanding
Put your detective hat on and understand what your child's behavior is trying to tell you. There are only five reasons kids misbehave.Increase Confidence
Get step-by-step guidance so you can be confident that you are a great parent doing great work.Increase Joy and Hope
Find balance and bring control and joy back to your life. Find hope for the future. It's never too late to work on your relationship with your child.I reached out to Melissa when one of our children started displaying scary behaviors that were outside of the tools we had. I had run out of ideas and felt like I was failing. Once we started using the REAL Life Behavior Plan System, I could feel the bitterness slipping away, and I started enjoying my child. The behaviors haven't completely gone away, but I don't live in fear anymore. I feel in control of myself and confident about my parenting. The transformation is like night and day. Thanks to Melissa, we feel like we have our family back again.
Carrie
foster and adoptive mom
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About Me
When we adopted as parent trainers, we thought we were prepared. We were wrong.
We spent three years in a constant power struggle and dying on all the wrong hills. It took almost losing our kids to get us to do something differently.
Now is your chance to learn from our mistakes. It's never too late.
As a certified life coach, Empowered to Connect Parent Trainer, adoptee, and adoptive parent, I've helped dozens of foster and adoptive parent shift to a brain-based view of behaviors so they can find more effective solutions besides threatening and punishing and become confident parents. I'm a mom to six kids by birth and adoption. They've taught me a lot about what creates thriving parent-child relationships…and what doesn't.