We're wrapping up season two of The Calm Empowered Parent podcast with an exclusive look inside a real-life parent coaching session with Vanessa and Coach Kathryn from the Family Foundation Immersion Program. This episode offers a behind-the-scenes peek at "Side Door Coaching," where parents address real-life challenges like managing defiant 5-year-olds, navigating peer pressure, and supporting families with multiple neurodivergent diagnoses. These relatable, heartfelt moments might just resonate with what's happening in your own family.

In this episode, parenting experts Vanessa and Kathryn share actionable strategies to help you handle everyday parenting struggles. Discover tips for encouraging safe, stimulating movement, navigating tricky conversations about media and peer pressure, creating engaging tasks to keep kids focused at school and home, and balancing your availability to meet your children's needs in a sustainable way. With practical advice, real-world examples, and expert insights, this episode gives you the tools to feel empowered and connected in your parenting journey. Don't miss it!

Here are the questions and topics covered by Vanessa and Kathryn in a parent coaching session to help you minimize defiance and destructive tendencies, navigate peer pressure, and combat boredom at school.

• Managing 5-year-old defiance with movement exercises and child input into family routines
• Encouraging safe, stimulating movement that isn't destructive to the house
• Talking to kids and parents about age-appropriate media and peer pressure
• Handling multiple neurodivergent diagnoses within one family
• Creating engaging school tasks for bored or under-stimulated kids.
• Balancing parent availability to meet the needs of multiple children sustainably.

I hope you got some powerful insights from this parent coaching session.

Discover more about our signature yearlong program for parents and caregivers, The Family Foundations Immersion, at https://bit.ly/RORImmersion.

Go to www.thecalmempoweredparent.com to get your free copy of Vanessa's Calm Parent Strategy Guide, to submit a question, to stay up to date with upcoming events, and to explore how to bring one of Vanessa's low-cost workshops to your school or group.

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The dads are back! It's Part 2 of our amazing dad panel, and our six dads have so many more fun anecdotes and inspiring insights for you! We don't go into sports, jobs, or hobbies without training and learning, so our dads ask "Why would we do that with parenting?" They're here to acknowledge how the power of positive parenting has impacted their lives, and how it takes commitment, continual learning, and new skills to be an empowering force in their children's lives. Breakthrough after breakthrough have come as a result of their efforts for their families in Vanessa's Family Foundations Immersion program.

As each dad shares their parenting wins, we get to learn about how they transformed their family culture with shared goals and direction, became the kind of parent that their child comes to when they're having a breakdown, fixed their hectic morning routines, and so much more. The episode is full of heartfelt, tear-jerking messages of love and commitment and serves as a powerful reminder that through mentorship, commitment, community, and heart, you can succeed and thrive as a parent.

Topics we covered in Dad Panel Part 2: Breakthroughs from the Power of Positive Parenting​.

• What wins and breakthroughs have had a lasting impact on your family?
• Transforming your family into a team with shared goals and direction.
• Becoming the kind of parent that your child comes to for your love, compassion, and emotional regulation when they're having a breakdown.
• Finding the right tools to fix the hectic morning routine and go from being late to school nearly every day to arriving early.
• Leaning into the superpower of goofiness and play to intrinsically motivate kids.
• The reminder that through mentorship, commitment, community, and heart, you can succeed and thrive as a parent.

Hope you enjoyed this episode of Dad Panel Part 2: Breakthroughs from the Power of Positive Parenting and discovered meaningful insights to support your family.

Discover more about our signature yearlong program for parents and caregivers, The Family Foundations Immersion, at https://bit.ly/RORImmersion.

Go to www.thecalmempoweredparent.com to get your free copy of Vanessa's Calm Parent Strategy Guide, to submit a question, to stay up to date with upcoming events, and to explore how to bring one of Vanessa's low-cost workshops to your school or group.

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Parenting spaces are not just for mothers, so it's time for the fathers to shine! In this panel of six incredible dads, they provide a powerful example of parents who have experienced tremendous growth after embracing mentorship for their parenting. Each of these dads has been a part of Vanessa's Family Foundations Immersion program and share the most important things they've learned from the program, the personal growth and development they've experienced, and insights from the ups and downs of their unique parenting journeys.

In part one, the dads discuss the importance of emotional regulation, the steps they've taken to achieve family cohesion, and the immense personal growth that they've found on their journey to becoming even better fathers. Listen for tools and strategies that have produced real-life positive results for their families and for powerful reminders to give ourselves the same grace that we give our children. You, too, can learn to understand your children's emotions and how to better manage them, and along the way, you might just learn how to harness your own emotions for greater healing and success.

Here are the topics we covered on Dad Panel Part 1: Finding Personal Growth and Development Through Parenting.

• Dads share the most important thing they have learned in their parenting journey
• When should I wave that white flag and ask for help?
• Tools and strategies that have produced real-life positive results for their families.
• How learning about our children's emotions opens up a greater consciousness about our own emotions and how we deal with them.
• Getting on the same page with co-parents and kids to achieve family cohesion.
• Learning to give ourselves the same grace we give our children.

Hope you enjoyed today's episode and learned something new on Finding Personal Growth and Development Through Parenting.

Go to www.thecalmempoweredparent.com to get your free copy of Vanessa's Calm Parent Strategy Guide, to submit a question, to stay up to date with upcoming events, and to explore how to bring one of Vanessa's low-cost workshops to your school or group.

Discover more about Vanessa's signature yearlong program for parents and caregivers, The Family Foundations Immersion, at https://bit.ly/RORImmersion.

Music by Jabari Martin instagram.com/iamstolenartifacts.