from Jess VanderWier, Registered Psychotherapist & mom of 3
When the meltdowns and bedtime standoffs keep coming back, most advice just tries to stop them. Our courses and toolkits show you what your child’s behavior is really telling you, and how to respond.
Find your course or toolkitThe Issue You’re Facing
Pick whichever sounds most like your house right now. You can't choose wrong, and you don't need it all figured out first.
For meltdowns, anger, worry, hitting, and kids who go from zero to sixty. Use this when feelings get loud, last long, or are hard to come back from.
For bedtime, sleep, potty, school mornings, goodbyes, and separation. Use this when the same part of the day keeps turning into a fight.
For screen limits, online safety, school stress, friendship problems, and growing independence. Use this path when outside pressures are affecting daily family life.
For body safety, consent, puberty, private parts, and safe adults. Use this path when you need clear words and child-friendly tools for body safety conversations.
For cooperation, strong-willed kids, siblings, and limits. Use this when you want to hold a boundary without yelling, shaming, or giving in.
Common First Steps
Video courses that help you understand what's driving the behavior, and exactly what to do about it.
For mornings, meltdowns, and repeating yourself when ADHD is part of the picture. Video lessons and a troubleshooting library that walk you through the ADHD brain and what to do next, from a therapist who has ADHD herself, for ages 4 to 12.
Printable activities you and your child work through together, with parent guidance built in.
For body safety you want to teach calmly, not in one big scary talk. Printable stories, games, scripts, and posters you and your child work through together, so bodies, privacy, consent, and safe and unsafe touch become normal conversations, for ages 3 to 9.
What shapes the help
Jess VanderWier is a Registered Psychotherapist and mom of three. Most parenting advice tries to stop the behavior: the sticker chart, the consequence, the reminder to stay calm. It can work for a week, then the hard moment comes back. Our courses go underneath, using child-development and therapy-informed teaching to help you understand the need driving the behavior, choose a clear response, and know what to say. The goal isn't to make you endlessly calm. It's to give you words and tools you can actually reach for when everyone's tired.
Read what we believeFrom Parents
I no longer feel ‘lost’ in parenting. Your response to tantrums is so practical, only three steps, I can manage that! My daughter gets it, and I get it! Thank you sooo much already, just in a few weeks I can see such a change.
We have noticed major changes not only in my sons’ behaviour and reactions but in my own well-being. I can’t thank you enough for the tools inside of these courses!
As someone who did your separations and goodbyes course last summer, I can honestly say it’s the BEST thing we did to prepare our little one to go to junior kindergarten. She was so prepared, no tears, and we felt good too! Highly recommend!
Free Help
No pressure to buy anything. Jess's free help comes in whatever format fits the moment you're in.
Short, practical articles for the moments you’re facing at home.
Helpful conversations and teaching you can take with you.
Posts, scripts, and encouragement for real family moments.
Ready for a next step?
You don't have to solve everything today. But you also don't have to keep reaching for one more trick that doesn't stick. Pick the thing that's hardest right now and start there. Inside Shop you'll find the courses and toolkits for it, so the hard moments come with less yelling and a lot less guessing.
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