If you’re raising a child with ADHD, anxiety, autism, giftedness or other forms of neurodiversity, it can be hard to get through the day without power struggles, shutdowns, or feeling like you're walking on eggshells.
But parenting "complex" kids doesn’t have to be a constant battle!
A neuro-informed coach-approach offers an effective, evidence-based path to connection, collaboration, growth, and change.
In class, parenting coaches and neurodiversity experts Elaine Taylor-Klaus and Diane Dempster join Susan Stiffelman to share tools rooted in professional coaching, focusing on boosting confidence, increasing agency, and building trust.
If you are a parent or caregiver who's ready to learn how to use a coach-approach with neurodiverse kids, this class is for you!
We'll cover essential topics like:
✔️ Shifting from managing behavior to empowering self-management
✔️ Understanding why typical parenting strategies don’t work with ADHD, anxiety, autism, and executive function challenges
✔️ Guiding anxious kids who freeze, avoid, or panic under pressure
✔️ Minimizing power struggles when your child hears “no” and melts down, shuts down or lashes out
✔️ Setting appropriate expectations and limits with firmness and flexibility
✔️ Communicating in ways that reduce defensiveness and fuels cooperation
✔️ Creating accountability when kids resist, forget, or fail to follow through — without nagging
✔️ The importance of helping kids develop self-awareness, resilience, and ownership
✔️ Supporting smoother routines and transitions without constant reminders, threats, or bribes
✔️ Staying grounded when your child is emotionally reactive, overwhelmed or dysregulated
✔️ Recognizing the difference between behavior issues and nervous system overload
✔️ Using coaching tools to increase trust, cooperation, and buy-in, and ownership
✔️ Staying connected—even when things are messy or hard
We'll cover essential topics like:
✔️ Shifting from managing behavior to empowering self-management
✔️ Understanding why typical parenting strategies don’t work with ADHD, anxiety, autism, and executive function challenges
✔️ Guiding anxious kids who freeze, avoid, or panic under pressure
✔️ Minimizing power struggles when your child hears “no” and melts down, shuts down or lashes out
✔️ Setting appropriate expectations and limits with firmness and flexibility
✔️ Communicating in ways that reduce defensiveness and fuels cooperation
✔️ Creating accountability when kids resist, forget, or fail to follow through — without nagging
✔️ The importance of helping kids develop self-awareness, resilience, and ownership
✔️ Supporting smoother routines and transitions without constant reminders, threats, or bribes
✔️ Staying grounded when your child is emotionally reactive, overwhelmed or dysregulated
✔️ Recognizing the difference between behavior issues and nervous system overload
✔️ Using coaching tools to increase trust, cooperation, and buy-in, and ownership
✔️ Staying connected—even when things are messy or hard
We'll cover essential topics like:
✔️ Shifting from managing behavior to empowering self-management
✔️ Understanding why typical parenting strategies don’t work with ADHD, anxiety, autism, and executive function challenges
✔️ Guiding anxious kids who freeze, avoid, or panic under pressure
✔️ Minimizing power struggles when your child hears “no” and melts down, shuts down or lashes out
✔️ Setting appropriate expectations and limits with firmness and flexibility
✔️ Communicating in ways that reduce defensiveness and fuels cooperation
✔️ Creating accountability when kids resist, forget, or fail to follow through — without nagging
✔️ The importance of helping kids develop self-awareness, resilience, and ownership
✔️ Supporting smoother routines and transitions without constant reminders, threats, or bribes
✔️ Staying grounded when your child is emotionally reactive, overwhelmed or dysregulated
✔️ Recognizing the difference between behavior issues and nervous system overload
✔️ Using coaching tools to increase trust, cooperation, and buy-in, and ownership
✔️ Staying connected—even when things are messy or hard
We'll cover essential topics like:
✔️ Shifting from managing behavior to empowering self-management
✔️ Understanding why typical parenting strategies don’t work with ADHD, anxiety, autism, and executive function challenges
✔️ Guiding anxious kids who freeze, avoid, or panic under pressure
✔️ Minimizing power struggles when your child hears “no” and melts down, shuts down or lashes out
✔️ Setting appropriate expectations and limits with firmness and flexibility
✔️ Communicating in ways that reduce defensiveness and fuels cooperation
✔️ Creating accountability when kids resist, forget, or fail to follow through — without nagging
✔️ The importance of helping kids develop self-awareness, resilience, and ownership
✔️ Supporting smoother routines and transitions without constant reminders, threats, or bribes
✔️ Staying grounded when your child is emotionally reactive, overwhelmed or dysregulated
✔️ Recognizing the difference between behavior issues and nervous system overload
✔️ Using coaching tools to increase trust, cooperation, and buy-in, and ownership
✔️ Staying connected—even when things are messy or hard
Susan Stiffelman, MFT
Elaine Taylor-Klaus
Elaine Taylor-Klaus, MCC, is a globally recognized thought leader at the intersection of neurodiversity, coaching, and parenting. As co-founder of ImpactParents.com (formerly ImpactADHD®), she pioneered neurodiversity-informed coaching, empowering families and training professionals to support 'complex' individuals. A mother to an ADHD++ family, Elaine co-hosts the Parenting with Impact podcast and has authored award-winning blogs, books, and programs, including Parenting ADHD Now!, The Essential Guide to Raising Complex Kids, and Sanity School®. Elaine inspires others to navigate neurodiversity with confidence and compassion.
Diane Dempster
Diane Dempster is a professional coach, speaker, author, and educator. Co-host of the Parenting with Impact podcast, and Co-Founder of ImpactParents.com where she teaches a neurodiversity informed - coach approach to parenting - blending behavior management with change management, so that parents and concerned adults can empower kids, teens & young adults to become independent and successful. An experienced leader, spiritual wanderer, change agent and all-around life-guide, Diane helps clients create deep, inside-out, sustainable change.
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The material covered in this class will help parents of young children through young adult.
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