Raising Kids With Big, Baffling Behaviors
A Course for Parents

Stop playing behavior whack-a-mole with your child’s most baffling behaviors by finally addressing the real problem

Join me and a small group of fellow parents committed to reconnecting with their kids, without losing themselves. Whether you’re navigating neurodiversity and regulation needs in your kids, yourself, or both—this series is a brain-based game-changer.

Understand BIG behaviors and what’s fueling them, so you can meet them more effectively.

Trust your own good thinking so you can follow your instincts and quiet critics (even inner ones!)

Identify fresh skills for chronic stress to shift what gets your attention, and stop the reaction train from picking up steam!

Let’s Get To The Root Of What Feels Stuck.

And Start Easing The Intensity.

With this no-shame, no-blame approach to parenting, you’ll finally understand why good intentions and honest emotions can clash—even when you “know what to do”—but especially when you feel overwhelmed.

We’ll explore the neuroscience of behavior, expanding your toolbox with a series of flexible, practical strategies for responding in the midst of intensity and overwhelm, while growing your capacity for managing stress and reducing frustration.

This series is strategically designed so you don’t just learn a bunch of parenting tools and techniques. You will be equipped with practical interventions that actually work—and you’ll understand which tools to use when and why—based on the science of being relationally, socially, and behaviorally human.

This series is especially powerful for parents navigating neurodiversity in their kids, themselves, or both. Part of my mission with all my workshops is connecting more families with tailored resources, whole-hearted support, and one another!

That means: Your questions are welcome. Your worries and what-ifs are invited. I want your community and capacity to grow.

Course created by Robyn Gobbel, LCSW :: host of The Baffling Behavior Show podcast

You Can Expect

• (10) LIVE weekly small group sessions via Zoom

• (1) private parent coaching session (1 hour)

• Practical info and fresh tools each week, so you can apply what you’re learning right away

• Time for Q+A every time we meet—come get your BIG (and small) questions answered

• Neurodiversity-affirming parenting strategies rooted in a strength-based, connection-first, science-informed approach

• Printable workbook and sensory tools to use between sessions

• You get to decide how much “homework” you do (i.e.—intentional experiments, written reflection, resources)

• A circle of parents with similar experiences, where your questions are welcomed and challenges held with compassion

Shift toward more confidence and less conflict, so you can enjoy your kids more!

I’m sharing my best resources from 15+ years of working with kids, parenting my own, and training teachers and therapists.
I’ll braid all this experience together with the brain science to back it up, helping you add strategies to your toolbox that are tailored for your daily challenges. And we’ll keep vulnerable nervous systems in mind all along the way.

Make sense of BIG behaviors and redirect your energy, so you AND your kids can get needs met with fewer meltdowns.

Our kids map their coping skills and emotional regulation on ours.

Our parenting task is to shine a light in the direction we want to guide them. Your regulation and sense of connection matters as much as theirs.

After over a year of in-depth study, I’m excited to share this professionally designed curriculum, brimming with practical, brain-science based strategies and tons of support for your family.

I trust your judgment, insights, and bandwidth.

The content is geared for families navigating neurodivergence (ADHD, autism, anxiety, learning challenges, regulation needs) and looking to ease behaviors that are more confusing and overwhelming than “typical” parenting books have room for.

There’s no such thing as “being behind” in this series. It’s designed to support and encourage you, not add to your To-Do List.

Here’s where we’re headed…

How to become the expert in your kid’s behavior

We’ll explore the brain science of regulation and behavior, with attention to non-verbal communication, taking a no-shame, no-blame approach to making sense of big reactions and specific support for anchoring through BIG behaviors and high stress moments.

I’ll share how I talk with kids about understanding their own brains and needs—so you can help guide them through this process, too. And you’ll get to experience a whole new perspective on what it means to navigate the world (inside and outside) with a vulnerable nervous system.

Week 1 What You See Isn’t What You Get

Week 2 Regulated, Connected Kids Who Feel Safe and Know What To Do Behave Well

You are nearly the best-equipped person in the world to write the operator’s manual for your own child, second only to them!

Why do none of the off-the-shelf parenting books seem to work for your kid? One wide-sweeping guess? They’re not written for or about your kid! The deal with parenthood is that you don’t get all the information up front. It’s more like a spigot that turns on fast or slow over time, sometimes a trickle of insight flows out—other times it’s gushing! But what a book can’t tell you is how to handle each individual moment when you and/or your child are flooded. That’s where this series picks up.

We’ll start with navigating the hotspots, making sense of what’s happening in those moments, and working backward from there…so you can meet the next mighty moment with more perspective & tools.

Why rewards, consequence, logic & control don’t budge some of the most persistent behaviors. When we focus on the behavior, it can feel like playing a game of Whack-A-Mole! Just when one behavior shifts, another one pops up…you’re not nuts, and you’re not the only one. This his how vulnerable nervous systems respond to stress.

Together, we’ll get curious about how Connection, Protection, and Non-Verbal communication are part of the path to finding new ways in.

Now Let’s Shift Those Behaviors
(not ‘fix’ your kid)

Week 3 Getting To Know The Engage, Protect, Shut-Down Brain Pathways

Week 4 Increase Felt Safety (in the body, the environment, and relationships)

Week 5 Changing The Brain With Connection and Co-Regulation

Week 6 Strategies To Calm The Protection Brain and Soothe The Shut-Down/Withdrawal Brain

Week 7 What To Do When Their Thinking Brain Returns (AKA: What about a consequence?)

Why Knowing Isn’t Even Half The Battle
(Why “know better, do better” isn’t the whole story)

Supporting your child and their needs is an essential responsibility of parenthood. But it does not require you to let go of your own needs in the process. It’s possible to feel more connected with your child without losing track of yourself. I’ll show you what I mean…no bubble baths or solo retreats required. And no judgment if those are part of your dream! We’ll lean into expanding your capacity by tuning into yourself.

Week 9 How You Can Know What To Do And Still Not Do It

Week 10 Growing Your Capacity For Stress Tolerance + 4 Steps To Not Flip Your Lid