I created this website to help you:

1. Keep your kids off dark paths leading to unhappiness
2. Reduce your struggling and enjoy the parenting journey

Keep Your Kids Off Dark Paths Leading to Unhappiness

You will learn how to increase the likelihood your children will stay OFF dark paths leading to:

• Drug and alcohol addiction
• Unplanned teenage pregnancies
• Poverty and homelessness
• Crime and incarceration
• Acts of terrorism
• Pornography addiction
• Gang involvement
• Violence
• Failed marriages
• Child abuse
• Suicide

You will learn how to help your children thrive.

As you are making that happen, your life as a parent will change. Your struggling will decrease and you will begin to enjoy the parenting journey.

Reduce Your Struggling and Enjoy the Parenting Journey

If you are a struggling parent, your children are probably struggling too. Struggling children will constantly misbehave and cause a lot of frustration, anxiety and stress.

That is because:

Children cannot feel “bad” and behave “good”.

When you and your children are struggling, you miss out on sharing a close relationship.

When asked to do something, your children will ignore you or tell you “No!”

They won’t care about learning good behavior.

Correcting their bad behavior will seem futile.

And they will make poor choices when you are not around.

This website will show you how to reduce both your, and your children’s struggling. It will show you how to:

1. Strengthen relationships with your children
2. Increase cooperation
3. Build a strong family where your children learn and practice good values
4. Dramatically increase the likelihood your children will make good choices even when you are not around

I am going to show you how to do all that with just 5 words!

I created this website to help parents because I’m saddened whenever I learn about another tragedy like those listed above—especially when I know that parents can do something to reduce the chance of these tragedies from ever happening.

What Incarcerated Men Have Taught Me

Since 2016, I’ve been teaching parenting skills to fathers who are incarcerated at the State Prison and in county jails. I learn about their backgrounds.

Most of them lived young lives filled with trauma, having experienced physical and emotional abuse. Many were severely punished for bad behavior. Some ran away from home. Some were kicked out of the house to live on the streets. Most never felt loved.

Some were exposed to drugs while in elementary school. Some sold drugs. Most were drug addicts.

Many witnessed violence in and outside the home. Many of them joined gangs. Most did not have a good role model from which to learn good parenting skills.

Many turned to drugs and crime because of the emotional pain they felt growing up; emotional pain caused by the people who raised them. The people who raised them did not know a better way.

I believe there are parents right now, struggling to raise their children because they don’t know a better way.

Your family may not be as dysfunctional as what I just mentioned. You may just be looking for answers to some pressing parenting questions.

I’m confident that no matter where you are on the struggling scale, you will find the help you are looking for in this website.

I’ve taken the knowledge I’ve accumulated from researching books, podcasts and other parenting resources, combined that with what I’ve learned from raising six kids of my own, added to that, lessons I’ve learned from teaching hundreds of incarcerated dads—and created this website.

The Five Words

Here are the five words I told you about earlier. They are the most powerful five words a parent can live by:

Meet the 4 Emotional Needs.

These five words will empower you to be an effective, confident, and happy parent. They will guide you to raise your children to be happy and successful.

You see, each one of your children were born with 4 emotional needs that must be met. When you do not meet these needs—that’s when struggling happens.

If you want to reduce the struggling, you must meet these needs. There is no other way. Here are the 4 Emotional Needs:

1. A sense of belonging
2. A sense of personal power
3. To be heard and understood
4. Boundaries

I will ask you to focus on meeting the 4 Emotional Needs. How?

You will be introduced to 15 parenting skills you will use to meet these emotional Needs. Doing the skills will meet the needs. Meeting the needs will reduce the struggling—naturally and automatically. Here’s an easy way to visualize this process:

My desire to help parents compelled me to create this website. I feel this is my calling—to tell parents about the 4 Emotional Needs and how to meet them, so they can help their children become awesome kids.

NOTHING will make a more positive difference in the lives of our children than to grow up in a family where parents practice good parenting skills every day.

There is no substitute for the family. There is no institution or government program that has more impact or influence on a child’s welfare than the family.

Click on “Start here”, below, to be taken to the mini-lessons to begin your new parenting journey.