Welcome to the parenting course. I am so excited and honored that you're inviting me to assist you on your parenting journey. What an unbelievable job you have as a parent, and child without training, or pay. Maybe before you had your first child, you took a course on caring for a baby and then all of a sudden the hospital send you home with a little human. And now you're expected to know what to do at each and every developmental stage, let alone at each and every outburst or transition or mealtime. Wow, that blows my mind that parents are given this enormous task yet without any training or requirements.

But I'm sure you're doing your best every single day. And what other choice do you have? what this course is designed to do is to give you more purposefulness behind your inner actions with your child to help you feel like you're in control and not like you're just winging it. This course will help you find alternatives to what you're currently doing alternatives that promote a more positive relationship with your child. So let me introduce myself. My name is Mike Wallach.

I'm a former classroom teacher. I have my Master's in education. I'm what's called a behavior analyst. And I'm a husband to my amazing wife, Rachel. Above all those titles, my most important title is parent. I have three young daughters.

And I like to consider myself a child whisperer. I've always had a natural ability to be around kids and involved with them. But it wasn't until I was in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis or also called ABA therapy. When I was able to pair my natural abilities with a scientific method behavior change. One reason I get kids so much is because I'm still a big kid at heart. And when when I'm with my family at a party or barbecue with friends, most often I'm hanging out with the children, rather than the adults.

I just think it's more fun. I have 100% confidence in my abilities to engage a child and to make them feel comfortable and safe and special. In each of my interactions and reactions is deliberate. When our first daughter was born, my wife had zero experience working with or being around children. In fact, she even like children. And after learning the same fundamental principles and strategies I'll be sharing in this course, my wife has developed a powerful and positive relationship with each of our daughters, while holding high expectations for their behavior.

Have you ever felt like a broken record with your child, like your relationship with your child is an downward downward spiral Or maybe you just want to reaffirm some of the things you're already doing. This course is designed for you. What's your biggest current challenge with your kid? Do you ever ask yourself? Why doesn't my kid listen? How did my children because become so desensitized to my parenting method?

And why is what I'm doing so ineffective. You should find that the information in this course will meet your needs as a parent. However, this course is different from other parenting courses. They might be abstracted, they might tell you to be present to listen. But how you'll see that the content in this course will be applicable to your individual family and be practical and easy to implement, will develop positive results. Most importantly, this course will be about you as an adult and what you can change in order to meet their needs.

And I feel We believe that when we change our behavior, our child will change theirs. So after completing this course, you will have the fundamental skills to empower you to become a parent you desire to be. Now, here it is. I don't know finances, or Excel spreadsheets, I watch YouTube videos when I need to fix anything around the house. There are two things that I do know about children and behavior. And I designed this course to get my effective and positive methods out there to everyday parents like you wanting to improve your relationship with your children.

Thank you for investing in your children by taking this course. And I thank you for putting your trust in me as your guide to help you achieve better results. Throughout this course. I will mention additional resources and a few homework assignments. You can use them to strengthen and evaluate your progress. parenting skills.

I hope you will find the information useful and actionable and when you're ready please jump to the next lesson.