Being With-Parent Course

A Course for Parents of Kids with Big Baffling Behaviors

Led by Anne Hardegree, M. ED., LPC-S

Created by Robyn Gobbel LMSW

Who the Course is For

Stop playing behavior whack-a-mole with your child’s most baffling behaviors by finally addressing the real problem! This 12-week course will teach you what behavior really is, and how to change it. Being With: A Course for Parents of Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors is based on the science of being relationally, socially, and behaviorally human. This course will make your child’s behavior make sense; even the ones that don’t. You’ll become equipped with interventions, tools, techniques that actually work! In this no-shame, no-blame approach to parenting, you’ll finally understand why knowing is only half the battle. The course is strategically designed so you don’t just learn a bunch of parenting tools and techniques. By the end, you’ll actually be able to put the powerful techniques you learn to action.

Who It Benefits

This course will benefit all parents but is especially offered for parents of kids with vulnerable nervous systems and baffling behaviors. This includes children with a history of trauma and toxic stress (including foster care and adoption), as well as children who are neurodivergent, gifted, have sensory processing differences, or neuroimmune disorders. You might not know why your child has a vulnerable nervous system, and that’s okay. This course is for you, too.

Three Core Tenets

To change children’s behaviors, we will look for ways to increase regulation, connection, and felt-safety.

Behavior

Behavior is just a clue. It’s what we see on the outside that gives us some information about what might be happening on the inside.

Connection

We all need connection to survive. If your child is behaving in a way that makes us not want to be connected to them, we can pause and ask, “What’s up with that?”

Safety

Regulated, connected kids, who feel safe, behave well.

This Course Is Right For You If You Are...

Ready to move past behavior intervention techniques
Longing to find a way to see your child's true self...even if they never show it to you
Willing to do the hard work of looking inward to move onward
Looking for the right behavior intervention to change your child's behaviors
Most comfortable with consequence-based parenting interventions
Are interested in considering and addressing the underlying cause of difficult behaviors
Parenting a child with chronically dangerous behaviors (violence, aggression, substance abuse, sexually acting out, self-injury, etc.)

Offering:

In-Person Course

Currently in-session

Virtual Course

Starts June 12 | 12 PM – 1:30 PM

75 minute sessions

$200 for 1 Parent
$250 for 2 Parents

12-week course

Course Breakdown

Section 1

How to Become the Expert in Your Child’s Behaviors. Using the science of being relationally, socially, and behaviorally human, this section will demystify the most baffling behaviors. You’ll change how to see and interpret your child’s behavior. That change will become the most powerful tool in your parenting toolbox.

Section 2

Now, Let’s “Fix” Those Behaviors. Your parenting toolbox will be stuffed with brain, body, and sensory strategies- that actually work. These techniques will strengthen your child’s nervous system and decrease baffling behaviors. Better yet, by the end of this section you’ll know what interventions to use when.

Section 3

Why Knowing Isn’t Even Half the Battle. You aren’t a bad parent, so what happens between learning new parenting skills and actually using those new parenting skills? Section 3 will grow your tolerance for baffling behaviors so you can parent the way that you want to.