#LifeSkillsNow Mini-Series: Parenting Toolbox #1
Raise Confident, Strong Kids Without the Constant Conflict
12 short workshops from 12 unique parenting experts.
This one’s for YOU, not the kids, whether you have a 3yo or a 17yo (or anything in between)!
You Love Your Kids, But You Keep Getting Stuck in the Same Standoff.
You’re a good parent having a hard week. Sometimes a hard month!
The standoff looks different depending on the age. Some days it’s a meltdown over one single sock that “feels funny on my toes.” Some days it’s a slammed door, or a device that doesn’t get docked at 10pm. Either way you’re out of moves and nobody is budging.
You’ve tried explaining. You’ve tried being firmer.
You’ve tried the thing that worked last year and does nothing now.
What helps is having more than one approach to reach for. This #LifeSkillsNow Mini-Series hands you a dozen of them, each from a different parenting expert, each simple enough to try tonight.
Every workshop ends with a mission: one specific thing to go try.
Who this is for: parents of kids anywhere from 3 to 17. If your kids are 12 or under, every workshop here applies to you. With teenagers, eight of the twelve still do.
Below: real kids dutifully doing chores in #LifeSkillsNow household. Just sayin’…
There are plenty of opportunities for conflict while we homeschool, and my default is to quickly react and respond. I’m going to try to take a moment to pause… knowing so many of these things helped her kids deal with conflicts gives me hope for my kids and myself!
Tiffany Kerlin
Why the Parenting Toolbox?
Most of our #LifeSkillsNow Mini-Series teach your kids. This one empowers the parents!
- Short videos, 7 to 40 minutes, so you can watch one while you fold laundry or listen in the car (or even skim the transcript or summary)
- Taught by trusted voices like Amy McCready of Positive Parenting Solutions, Lenore Skenazy of Let Grow, and Andrea Davis of Better Screen Time
- A real-life mission after every workshop, so you’re never left with “great, now what?”
- A one-time purchase with no subscription, and it’s yours to keep with no expiration
Twelve voices you’d otherwise track down across a dozen different books. And better yet? Maybe you’ll find someone you never would have guessed you’d enjoy — that’s the beauty of a curated grab bag!
My wife had me watch this one and was surprised at how much it resonated with me. I can be very stressed and snappy with my kids. This was very helpful, and hopefully I can apply it to my day-to-day.
Chris B.
Tools You Can Use Before Dinner Tonight
These workshops are designed to both make you think AND be practical. Each expert hands you something concrete to try right away:
- Settle your own nervous system first, so you can settle theirs
- Trade demands for questions, and watch the power struggle lose its fuel
- Find the ten minutes a day that fills your kid’s tank and takes the edge off the whining
- Decide whether your kid is ready for their own device, and build the family tech plan before they get one
- Stop a young boy’s hitting, kicking, and biting without a single punishment
- Ask the questions that get your kid solving their own problem instead of handing it to you
- Hand your kid one real independence assignment and watch them come back taller
- Run a family meeting that takes work off your plate instead of adding to it
Mostly, you walk away knowing what to do the next time a tricky situation comes up.
Take notes in whatever form you like, back of used envelope included:
What’s Included in the Parenting Toolbox Mini-Series
Twelve video workshops with printable handouts and a real-world action step for each one, pulled from the parent tracks of several well-loved seasons of #LifeSkillsNow. This is your chance to get some of the grown-up sessions on their own, at a price that won’t make you think twice.
Access to a private, ad-free membership area (with automagic login button so no password to lose)
Lifetime access so you can come back any time that works for you in your busy life
Downloadable videos for offline watching, because sometimes the only proper earbud moment is a road trip
#LifeSkillsNow Mini-Series: Parenting Toolbox #1
Raise Confident, Strong Kids Without the Constant Conflict
- Downloadable Videos + Summary or Transcript
- Printable Handouts for Note-Taking and Quick Reference
- Private, Ad-Free Dashboard
- 12 Parenting Experts, One Toolbox
- Access Never Expires PLUS if anything is added, you get that too!
- $10 per Workshop = $120 Value!
$30
🎁 Gift-giving option provided during checkout.
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Thank you for the wonderful set of workshops. It had a wonderful impact on me as a person and as a parent, and it wouldn’t be an understatement to say it actually enlightened me about myself and raising my daughter in ways I had not even thought of.
MM
Mini-Series Package, 12 Workshops from Experts
Workshops included in the Parenting Toolbox #1:
5 Ways to Un-Entitle Your Kids
with Amy McCready of Positive Parenting Solutions, 35 min
Toddlers to teens: Ten minutes a day of “mind, body, and soul time,” family contributions instead of chores, when-then routines, and how to give up on giving in. From the author who wrote the book on entitlement and was a parenting expert for the Today Show.
5 Simple Steps to Stop Your Boy’s Aggressive Behaviors
with Tosha Schore of Parenting Boys Peacefully, 40 min
For parents of young boys. If your son hits, kicks, bites, or scratches when he’s upset, this is a five-step practice built on one-on-one special time, detective work on his triggers, limits offered like a gift, and wild play. No punishments, no star charts.
Independence Now!
with Lenore Skenazy, president of Let Grow, 29 min
Works at any age, and parents of anxious tweens and teens get the most out of it. Hear from the founder of Free-Range Kids on the link between shrinking independence and rising anxiety, plus the Let Grow Project, co-founded with sociology professor Jonathan Haidt (author of The Anxious Generation): one thing you and your kid agree on that they go do by themselves.
The Magical Life Skill of Communicating with Your Body
with Ann Odom, licensed therapist, 28 min
Any age. A somatic therapist on why your nervous system is your child’s first language, and how to get yourself out of fight-or-flight with touch, breathing, and orienting. This is the one about you, not them.
Growing the Next Generation of Leaders
with Kerstin Kirchsteiger, PhD, 26 min
Any age old enough to hold a conversation. An executive coach makes the case for the family meeting, where kids practice planning, listening, and problem solving out loud, and you hand off some of the mental load.
How to Raise Strong-Willed Kids with Integrity
with Wendy Snyder of Fresh Start Family, 22 min
Best fit for ages 2 to 8. Why your “cactus kid” is a future leader, how to swap demands for questions, and a four-step way to hold a limit that’s firm and kind at the same time.
Technology Training Wheels: A Slow-Tech Approach in a Tech-Obsessed World
with Andrea Davis of Better Screen Time, 22 min
Tweens and teens, before and after their first device. The readiness questions to ask before you hand one over, Andrea’s stairstep approach to introducing tech slowly, and a family plan covering where, when, how long, and what for. Social media comes last, and she says it’s optional.
How to Teach Children with Big Emotions to Think More Flexibly
with Rachel Bailey, parenting specialist, 12 min
Ages 5 to 12, for kids who feel things strongly. Why sensitive, anxious, and strong-willed kids get stuck when plans change, and a three-step process that starts with silly games and works up to the real sticking points. Rachel is honest that it takes a while.
Become a Solution Bringer with These Magical Parenting Questions
with Lisa Yvonne of The Moments at Home, 11 min
Any age old enough to talk through a problem. How to go from guru to guide with a three-second pause and one signature question you use every time, so you’re no longer the chief problem solver in your own house.
A No-Fight Homeschool (or Summer) Day System
with Brittany White of The Deliberate Day, 10 min
This system has been used with kids from 3 to 17, non-readers included. One sheet of paper, a 3×3 grid of jobs your kid can do alone, and a sticky note to cover each one when it’s done. This is what stopped the daily battle in Brittany’s family of nine. Not just for homeschoolers!
Auditory Education: A Sound Strategy for Summer Learning
with Pam Barnhill, homeschool podcaster, 9 min
Elementary ages, and summer-minded. Audiobooks, kids’ podcasts, and memory-work playlists in the car, at breakfast, at bedtime, to beat the summer slide without a workbook in sight. Your kids help pick.
What Kids Learn from How Fathers Handle Stress
with Jon Hord of The Engaged Father Project, 7 min
Any age, and designed for dads. An honest look at how your stress reactions land on your kids, then Pause, Name, Choose: a three-step move for the hard moment, plus a word or a small physical habit that interrupts the old pattern.
Twelve workshops, about four hours, and a better first move the next time it gets hard.
What does a workshop feel like?
1. Watch a Short Video
Each workshop runs 7 to 40 minutes. Most are under 30. You can absolutely just listen (no video) if you want to absorb the information while driving.
2. To Help You Remember: Print the Handout
Every workshop comes with a printable to follow along or keep on the fridge for quick reference, AND either a full transcript or summary so you can skim ahead or look back to remember a point that got foggy in the ol’ noggin.
3. Try the Mission in Real Life
Each workshop ends with a mission, one specific thing to go do, so the advice isn’t just theoretical.
With the #LifeSkillsNow Parenting Toolbox, you get the training you didn’t know you needed when those kids were born.
Got Questions? Here are Your Answers:
For you, the parent. Most of our other #LifeSkillsNow Mini-Series teach your kids directly. This one hands you the strategies instead, and your kids get the benefit of a calmer parent.
Between 7 and 40 minutes, with most in the 10 to 30 minute range. About four hours for the whole collection.
No, completely different workshops and different experts. Toolbox #1 on this page is about the hard moments, meltdowns, power struggles, and back talk. Toolbox #2 is about the practical skills your kids and teens are ready to learn: money, chores, conflict, screens, and health. Plenty of parents own both.
Your kids can be 3 or 17, and you’ll reach for different sessions at different stages.
Eight of the twelve teach parenting skills that work at any age: entitlement, independence, your own reactions, family meetings, problem-solving questions, the daily-jobs grid, device readiness, and how your stress lands on your kids.
Four are built for the younger years: aggression in young boys, strong-willed kids from about 2 to 8, flexible thinking for ages 5 to 12, and audio learning for elementary.
Andrea Davis’s workshop is the one aimed squarely at tweens and teens.
Several sessions also speak directly to sensitive, strong-willed, and neurodivergent kids.
In a private, ad-free membership area you can get to anytime with an automagic login button in your email (password optional). Videos are downloadable so you can watch/listen offline, and every workshop includes a printable worksheet or quick-reference guide and an action step. We also include either a transcript or summary (depending on the season of #LifeSkillsNow the workshop was pulled from) for our visual learners or quick skimmers…or maybe even the parents whose brains are so full, they need a quick reminder without having to re-listen to the full workshop. 😉
Yes! It’s a one-time purchase with no subscription, and your access never expires. Come back to any workshop whenever you need a refresher.
The #LifeSkillsNow Mini-Series are pulled straight from previous Seasons, so if you already own one or more, chances are you have some of these workshops already.
Yes! Parenting Toolbox #1 is one of several. There’s also Parenting Toolbox #2: Raise Kids Who Are Ready for Real Life, plus mini-series on chores, money, communication, and more. Read about all our #LifeSkillsNow Mini-Series right here.
Absolutely! Your login is meant for your household, so you and your spouse are welcome to share it and watch together. Please don’t pass it along to friends or anyone outside your home, though. If a friend wants to catch a workshop, invite them over to watch it with you!
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