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Heya, lovely
I've spent 12+ years in the room with big behaviours, bigger meltdowns, and every kind of defiance you can throw at someone: long before it was my job to teach mums how to handle it too.
Early in my career, I was working with 3-5 year olds (including kids who'd already been through real trauma) with BIG behaviours to match. I'm talking kids biting me, chairs thrown at me, push-back so hard I dreaded some mornings before I'd even walked in the door.
I knew the theory inside out. Four years of study will do that. But theory doesn't stop a chair mid-air or a 45-min meltdown about socks.
I was exhausted every single day, and I knew there had to be a better way to handle the big moments while still meeting these kids in what they needed. So I went all in: mini courses, trial and error, testing approaches on real, hard days, until I figured out what actually works, and when.
That's the Calmer Parenting Method. Not theory I read once. Stuff I fought for, in the room, with the toughest behaviours going.
something I often get asked..
No, I don't have kids of my own. What I do have is 12+ years, hundreds of families, and every kind of big behaviour you can imagine, day in and day out. That's given me something different to lived experience alone: pattern recognition across hundreds of children, not just one household's version of hard.
Isabella
See Isabella's tools in action in this SBS World News segment (2019)
The Calmer Parenting Method
1. Language that works: communication that actually gets kids to listen, because it's rooted in real child development, not just a script.
2. Support that holds you: space to unravel the mental and emotional load, not just manage behaviour.
3. Tools to access calm when chaos hits: so you don't lose it the second your nervous system's triggered.Over 50 mums have used this to go from frustrated and snapping, to calm and connected.
What Mums say they love about working with me:
