Online Parenting Course | Navigate Child Behaviour

Parenting a child with intense feelings & behaviour that challenges you?

Get parenting strategies, resources, support & guidance, so you can respond to your child with more clarity, calm and confidence without the overwhelm.

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INTRODUCING THE

HARMONY PROGRAM

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A self-paced, online program to offer support and relief to worried and stressed parents who have a child frequently overwhelmed with intense feelings which results in behaviour that challenges.

Many, but not all, of our course participants have a child identified as autistic, diagnosed with ADHD or with high anxiety.

Go from feeling out-of-your depth, stressed and overwhelmed by your child’s BIG behaviours and intense emotions, to having the parenting skills to set clear boundaries and confidence to support your child through worries, tears and tantrums.

Once enrolled, you’ll find an easy to follow, yet comprehensive program containing videos, audios, transcripts, worksheets that incorporate lessons with the most up-to-date research on child and brain development with a focus on:

helping you to build a rock-solid relationship with your child
learning about, and understanding your unique child's temperament and individual differences
learning to regulate big emotions (yours and theirs!)
guiding you to set firm but fair boundaries (with examples)
improving your self-compassion and providing parental burnout support

Plus, you’ll have 24/7 access to the course through the easy to use mobile app, giving you full support to navigate strong emotions and process them in a way that serves you, your child, and your family.

The end result? Greater understanding of your child's individual nature, a stronger bond with your child, and a happier home.

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The program was easy to follow and incorporate into my every day. I loved being able to connect to bluetooth and listen in the car on the way to work. It’s easy to implement things in my day and improve my relationships with children in my care. So many great tools to support me!

SARAH ALFORD

All you've learnt from traditional, mainstream parenting strategies is that they don't work for your child.

You need more.

WHAT IF...

Instead of being tossed around in the storm of concerning behaviours and intense emotions, you became the lighthouse for your child.

And instead of having to resort to bribes, threats, and punishments in desperate attempt to get the behaviour you desire, you truly understood your child's needs and had powerful tools and simple strategies to meet these needs right at your fingertips.

Tools that not only result in behaviour change, but help your child feel heard and understood, resulting in better relationships and more harmony at home.

I'm a psychologist, parenting and leadership coach, and the owner of the multi-site group paediatric psychology practice, Hopscotch & Harmony.

I’m also a co-parent and mother of three children (8, 12 and 15) who are very different from each other and require different things from me in order to meet their needs. This requires flexibility and creativity to parent them in the way they need to be parented.

I'm here with you in the trenches and have my fair share of good and bad days, just like you. In order to keep myself regulated, I lean heavily on the tools I share with you in this program. I am then in a better position to help my child regulate their emotions. I invite you to learn these strategies so you can do the same.

Let me demystify anger and anxiety and the resulting behaviour, and give you the strategies that reduce stress, and increase calm and connection.

This program helps you, and your child.

I created this program in response to the most common themes and biggest challenges parents shared with me over the years in my role as psychologist and Director of Hopscotch & Harmony Psychology.

This course has been particularly well received by parents who are stressed and who have children with sensitive fight or flight responses including autistic children, children with ADHD and high anxiety.

It’s filled with practical advice, simple tools and easy to follow information to help you understand and manage big feelings (your child’s and your own) which ultimately improves behaviour.

The Harmony Program for Calm + Connected Parents and Carers will help you better understand your child, and guide the behaviour that challenges you so you can finally let go of the guilt, worries and big reactions and get back to enjoying spending time together.

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Take A Peek Inside

Here's how it works...

The 5 Pillars of the

Calm + Connected Parent

This comprehensive online course teaches you the 5 essential pillars that are the foundation of effective parenting of children with big feelings and concerning behaviour. If one of these pillars falters, the strength of the parent-child relationship will be shaky.

The good news is, every parent can become more skilled in each area.

PILLAR 1

Connection

Put aside behaviour concerns and your frustrations, and first learn how to see your child with curiosity and without judgement. This is one of the foundational steps in creating more calm and connection in your relationship before you even think about correcting behaviour and teaching skills.

In this module you’ll learn:

How to connect to who YOU are outside the role of parent.
Develop a connection plan to make time together with your child count.
Learn the number one parenting tool to improve parent-child relationships.

PILLAR 2

Regulate

The most important skill you never learnt is to understand your own nervous system so you stay regulated under stress instead of snapping and yelling. Knowing how to stay regulated is a crucial skill before you can effectively support your child with their distress, and it prevents situations escalating.

In this module you’ll learn:

How your nervous system impacts your feelings and emotions.
To map your emotional states so you have a clear understanding of your parenting triggers and default reactions.
All about your triggers and how to respond to them mindfully and with compassion.

PILLAR 3

Accept

Being able to acknowledge and accept your child's unique differences - and see the things that make them who they are - is the greatest gift you can give them.

In this module you’ll learn:

To develop an awareness of your child's underlying needs to understand the root cause of the behaviour that challenges you.
Recognise two types of behaviour you need to be able to differentiate.
Explore your child's profile of needs, wants and drives. Accepting the child you have and not the one you thought you would have.

PILLAR 4

Empower

Knowing how to engage in collaborative problem solving effectively, will get yours and your child’s needs met much faster. The sample conversation starters are really helpful if you're unsure where to start.

In this module you’ll learn:

Communication strategies that promote respectful problem solving and the 5 steps of emotion coaching.
Co-regulation: how to do this effectively
Boundaries: how to set firm but fair boundaries and troubleshooting.
How to communicate in a way that your child will be receptive to.

PILLAR 5

Self-Care

You show up for others all the time, but when things get hard do you show up for yourself? We parents of kids with big feelings can carry a lot of shame, blame and guilt, especially if we feel like we're not doing a ‘good enough’ job helping them. In Pillar 5 we learn how to actively counter these judgements of ourselves through self-compassion practices. This is a juicy module and you don’t want to skip over it!

In this module we’ll cover:

Becoming your own best friend and treating yourself with kindness
Understanding and managing stress and big worries
How to be more self-compassionate during difficult times
How to identify, prevent and manage burnout
Grounding and mindfulness techniques
Audio downloads - mindfulness practices and meditations

Sneak Peak inside the program...

What sets the Harmony Program for Calm + Connected Parents apart is that it takes a you-focused approach, fusing practical tools AND parenting advice that will make all the difference to how you show up for yourself and your child.

Through running this course and working with hundreds of families in my psychology practice over the past ten years — I’ve found it’s these kinds of questions that eventually wriggle their way out:

"How do I stay calm when we’re running late and my child won’t do a thing I ask?"

"How do I deal with my child crying everyday at drop off? It’s heartbreaking

"How do I stop yelling when my child will only listen if I raise my voice?"

"How do I know if I’m getting this parenting thing right, I’m constantly comparing and I don’t feel like I’m stacking up!"

So — along with deepening your understanding of where your child is coming from — I’m proposing we dissolve the not good enough-ness, too.

What do you say?

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I learned that I can adapt my own coping strategies to help a child who isn’t coping themselves. I also learned different ways of self care and “dropping the anchor” is something I didn’t know about but will definitely use!

CRYSTAL BARKER

Turn big feelings into bonding opportunities and strengthen your connection with your child.

This program is PERFECT for you if...

You want to help your child regulate their emotions. By understanding how the nervous system functions, you can identify signs of dysregulation and implement techniques that support self-regulation.
You want to learn how to co-regulate with your child, providing a safe and calm presence to help them navigate overwhelming emotions.
You want to minimise the frequency and intensity of meltdowns by understanding the underlying physiological processes can help you recognise triggers and intervene before an escalation occurs.
You want to learn how to implement appropriate sensory supports, emotional regulation techniques and environmental adjustments to help your child return to calm.
You were raised by a family of yellers and don't want your kids to remember YOU that way.
You find yourself snapping at your kids before you even know you're doing it and want to learn how to stop this knee-jerk reaction.
You want to create more good times and lasting memories with your kids.
You want guidance on what to say and how to say it when setting limits around behaviour.
You're willing to feel uncomfortable and challenged at times (l wish I could tell you that learning a new way was all rainbows and unicorns!)
You want more support and guidance than what you can find in books, lurking in Facebook groups or spending hours searching Google.
You want to model great emotional regulation skills for your kids to help them grow up to be emotionally healthy and resilient adults.
You want more than time outs and sticker charts in your parenting toolbox (spoiler alert: we don't advocate for a punishment/reward approach here)
You're hard on yourself when you don't respond well to your child's behaviour and would love to learn how to have more self-compassion to ease your guilt and shame.
You're ready to take the action needed to be the parent you want to be.

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