We all know the obvious needs our children have - hunger, comfort, sleep, health - which when left unmet create all kids of behaviors. But what about the "less obvious" needs?

Listen to this episode for 3 key unmet needs to look for when our kids are misbehaving, and some tips to help you meet those needs!

About your host, Angie Grandt - The Adoption Coach

Angie Grandt is the Adoption Coach. She is also a Quantum Human DesignTM Specialist, Certified Level 2 & an early intervention speech therapist with extensive training and experience in trauma, attachment, and autism. Angie is on a mission to help parents who are overwhelmed, frustrated, and questioning their ability to parent their most challenging child. She helps parents with practical tools to connect, enjoy, and even like their child again.

Angie is also the founder of Connected Parents with Angie - a coaching program designed for you - the loving and capable parent who can't figure out why raising your child is so frustrating, so overwhelming, and causing you to question your ability to parent. Using her unique approach of trauma-focused mindset lesson and coaching tools, Angie helps her clients get back to a life they love - creating cherished memories, feeling fulfilled in relationships, and letting go of frustration, resent, and overwhelm.

If you'd like to see if coaching is the solution for you, check out this video Angie made for you: https://youtu.be/qCL1SIe8kG0?si=B68dqmzmDFLT3zSZ

And when you've decided you're ready to take the leap for your family, book a free consult - Angie will help you decide if coaching is right for you: https://calendly.com/angiegrandt/free_session

Learn more about Connected Parents with Angie here: www.connectedparentswithangie.com

And follow Angie: https://www.instagram.com/connectedparentswithangie/

https://www.facebook.com/connectedparentswithangie

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Often when we're learning new tools - we feel so pumped up to change the way we approach our child's behaviors… but then in the moment, we go right back to our habitual way of reacting. In this episode, we'll discuss how to actually shift your responding in the moment!

About your host, Angie Grandt - The Adoption Coach

Angie Grandt is the Adoption Coach. She is also a Quantum Human DesignTM Specialist, Certified Level 2 & an early intervention speech therapist with extensive training and experience in trauma, attachment, and autism. Angie is on a mission to help parents who are overwhelmed, frustrated, and questioning their ability to parent their most challenging child. She helps parents with practical tools to connect, enjoy, and even like their child again.

Angie is also the founder of Connected Parents with Angie - a coaching program designed for you - the loving and capable parent who can't figure out why raising your child is so frustrating, so overwhelming, and causing you to question your ability to parent. Using her unique approach of trauma-focused mindset lesson and coaching tools, Angie helps her clients get back to a life they love - creating cherished memories, feeling fulfilled in relationships, and letting go of frustration, resent, and overwhelm.

If you'd like to see if coaching is the solution for you, check out this video Angie made for you: https://youtu.be/qCL1SIe8kG0?si=B68dqmzmDFLT3zSZ

And when you've decided you're ready to take the leap for your family, book a free consult - Angie will help you decide if coaching is right for you: https://calendly.com/angiegrandt/free_session

Learn more about Connected Parents with Angie here: www.connectedparentswithangie.com

And follow Angie: https://www.instagram.com/connectedparentswithangie/

https://www.facebook.com/connectedparentswithangie

❤ Angie Grandt, The Adoption Coach

When our kids are struggling - we are often struggling. We look outside our home and see other parents having fun, enjoying their kids. We see other parents raising kids who aren't defiant, disrespectful, destructive, or disconnected.

When we're struggling like this, we often only see 2 possible causes - 1) either our kids are "bad kids," or 2) we are "bad parents" - there really can't be any other cause for this relentlessly frustrating life, right?

In this episode, we'll talk about how our conditioning plays a key role in our frustration as parents - PLUS where to start making change!

About your host, Angie Grandt - The Adoption Coach

Angie Grandt is the Adoption Coach. She is also an early intervention speech therapist with extensive training and experience in trauma, attachment, and autism. Angie is on a mission to help parents who are overwhelmed, frustrated, and questioning their ability to parent their most challenging child. She helps parents with practical tools to connect, enjoy, and even like their child again.

Angie is also the founder of Connected Parents with Angie - a coaching program designed for you - the loving and capable parent who can't figure out why raising your child is so frustrating, so overwhelming, and causing you to question your ability to parent. Using her unique approach of trauma-focused mindset lesson and coaching tools, Angie helps her clients get back to a life they love - creating cherished memories, feeling fulfilled in relationships, and letting go of frustration, resent, and overwhelm.

If you'd like to see if coaching is the solution for you, check out this video Angie made for you: https://youtu.be/qCL1SIe8kG0?si=B68dqmzmDFLT3zSZ

And when you've decided you're ready to take the leap for your family, book a free consult - Angie will help you decide if coaching is right for you: https://calendly.com/angiegrandt/free_session

Learn more about Connected Parents with Angie here: www.connectedparentswithangie.com

And follow Angie: https://www.instagram.com/connectedparentswithangie/

https://www.facebook.com/connectedparentswithangie

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When a child experiences early trauma, various changes can happen to the brain. As parents, we see the effects - in behaviors, learning difficulties, developmental delays.

Let's discuss key changes to the brain common in children who've experienced trauma.

About your host, Angie Grandt - The Adoption Coach

Angie Grandt is the Adoption Coach. She is also an early intervention speech therapist with extensive training and experience in trauma, attachment, and autism. Angie is on a mission to help parents who are overwhelmed, frustrated, and questioning their ability to parent their most challenging child. She helps parents with practical tools to connect, enjoy, and even like their child again.

Angie is also the founder of Connected Parents with Angie - a coaching program designed for you - the loving and capable parent who can't figure out why raising your child is so frustrating, so overwhelming, and causing you to question your ability to parent. Using her unique approach of trauma-focused mindset lesson and coaching tools, Angie helps her clients get back to a life they love - creating cherished memories, feeling fulfilled in relationships, and letting go of frustration, resent, and overwhelm.

If you'd like to see if coaching is the solution for you, check out this video Angie made for you: https://youtu.be/qCL1SIe8kG0?si=B68dqmzmDFLT3zSZ

And when you've decided you're ready to take the leap for your family, book a free consult - Angie will help you decide if coaching is right for you: https://calendly.com/angiegrandt/free_session

Learn more about Connected Parents with Angie here: www.connectedparentswithangie.com

And follow Angie: https://www.instagram.com/connectedparentswithangie/

https://www.facebook.com/connectedparentswithangie

❤ Angie Grandt, The Adoption Coach

Have you ever wondered why you connect with some people better than others? This can be especially true with our kids - and can cause us parents so much distress, as we interpret this as "liking" one of our kids better than the others. Or have you ever wondered why things can be going so well with one person (or child) and then a 3rd or 4th person joins the mix - and everything seems to be thrown off before words are even spoken?

In this powerful episode, we'll introduce Human Design, what it means, and how it affects our interactions with others.

About your host, Angie Grandt - The Adoption Coach

Angie Grandt is the Adoption Coach. She is also an early intervention speech therapist with extensive training and experience in trauma, attachment, and autism. Angie is on a mission to help parents who are overwhelmed, frustrated, and questioning their ability to parent their most challenging child. She helps parents with practical tools to connect, enjoy, and even like their child again.

Angie is also the founder of Connected Parents with Angie - a coaching program designed for you - the loving and capable parent who can't figure out why raising your child is so frustrating, so overwhelming, and causing you to question your ability to parent. Using her unique approach of trauma-focused mindset lesson and coaching tools, Angie helps her clients get back to a life they love - creating cherished memories, feeling fulfilled in relationships, and letting go of frustration, resent, and overwhelm.

If you'd like to see if coaching is the solution for you, check out this video Angie made for you: https://youtu.be/qCL1SIe8kG0?si=B68dqmzmDFLT3zSZ

And when you've decided you're ready to take the leap for your family, book a free consult - Angie will help you decide if coaching is right for you: https://calendly.com/angiegrandt/free_session

Learn more about Connected Parents with Angie here: www.connectedparentswithangie.com

And follow Angie: https://www.instagram.com/connectedparentswithangie/

https://www.facebook.com/connectedparentswithangie

❤ Angie Grandt, The Adoption Coach

When I meet parents who are stressed, overwhelmed, or even at the end of their rope, I often hear a common theme: "I'll be happy when my child stops (you can fill in the blank here)," or "I'll stop feeling frustrated when my child does (fill in the blank)."

This is a common human reaction. We all do it to some degree - it's our default way of thinking. My coach calls it DO-HAVE-BE: for instance "what do I/my child need to DO so we can HAVE a peaceful home so we can finally BE happy?"

In this episode, let's talk about flipping this around so we can actually create happiness!

About your host, Angie Grandt - The Adoption Coach

Angie Grandt is the Adoption Coach. She is also an early intervention speech therapist with extensive training and experience in trauma, attachment, and autism. Angie is on a mission to help parents who are overwhelmed, frustrated, and questioning their ability to parent their most challenging child. She helps parents with practical tools to connect, enjoy, and even like their child again.

Angie is also the founder of Connected Parents with Angie - a coaching program designed for you - the loving and capable parent who can't figure out why raising your child is so frustrating, so overwhelming, and causing you to question your ability to parent. Using her unique approach of trauma-focused mindset lesson and coaching tools, Angie helps her clients get back to a life they love - creating cherished memories, feeling fulfilled in relationships, and letting go of frustration, resent, and overwhelm.

If you'd like to see if coaching is the solution for you, check out this video Angie made for you: https://youtu.be/qCL1SIe8kG0?si=B68dqmzmDFLT3zSZ

And when you've decided you're ready to take the leap for your family, book a free consult - Angie will help you decide if coaching is right for you: https://calendly.com/angiegrandt/free_session

Learn more about Connected Parents with Angie here: www.connectedparentswithangie.com

And follow Angie: https://www.instagram.com/connectedparentswithangie/

https://www.facebook.com/connectedparentswithangie

❤ Angie Grandt, The Adoption Coach

When facing a new challenge, where do you turn first for answers?

In the past couple of decades, many of us would say the experts (or Google, lol!). We feel frustrated, overwhelmed, uncertain - and we turn to the experts. Don't get me wrong - there is value in knowledge, expertise, and specialized skills.

However - you are the expert in your child. You are the expert in their needs, their wants, their triggers. It's true - if you ask 10 different experts for advice, you'll get 10 different pieces of advice. Which is right?

In this episode, we'll discuss where the true answers are to best help your child - and why these answers are so HARD to find!

About your host, Angie Grandt - The Adoption Coach

Angie Grandt is the Adoption Coach. She is also an early intervention speech therapist with extensive training and experience in trauma, attachment, and autism. Angie is on a mission to help parents who are overwhelmed, frustrated, and questioning their ability to parent their most challenging child. She helps parents with practical tools to connect, enjoy, and even like their child again.

Angie is also the founder of Connected Parents with Angie - a coaching program designed for you - the loving and capable parent who can't figure out why raising your child is so frustrating, so overwhelming, and causing you to question your ability to parent. Using her unique approach of trauma-focused mindset lesson and coaching tools, Angie helps her clients get back to a life they love - creating cherished memories, feeling fulfilled in relationships, and letting go of frustration, resent, and overwhelm.

If you'd like to see if coaching is the solution for you, check out this video Angie made for you: https://youtu.be/qCL1SIe8kG0?si=B68dqmzmDFLT3zSZ

And when you've decided you're ready to take the leap for your family, book a free consult - Angie will help you decide if coaching is right for you: https://calendly.com/angiegrandt/free_session

Learn more about Connected Parents with Angie here: www.connectedparentswithangie.com

And follow Angie: https://www.instagram.com/connectedparentswithangie/

https://www.facebook.com/connectedparentswithangie

❤ Angie Grandt, The Adoption Coach

The parents I serve, the parents I connect with, the parent I was... would all say something along this line: "I am giving all of my time, my attention, my energy, my (you can probably add more here!) to my one child - they are exhausting me!"

But is giving your time, your attention, your energy, etc. the same as connecting with your child?
Our kids need connection - and especially our kids who've experience disrupted attachment and early trauma need connection more than anything - more than trips, ice cream. They need connection more than they need us nagging them, correcting them, telling them they made another mistake, or yelling at them.

Our kids are telling us this too - they need connection. The trouble is, they tell us by yelling, hitting, breaking, or driving us crazy with their relentless asking for more.

Our kids need us to be present. In this week's episode, we'll discuss some strategies to do just this.

I can't wait to hear your feedback!

About your host, Angie Grandt - The Adoption Coach

Angie Grandt is the Adoption Coach. She is also an early intervention speech therapist with extensive training and experience in trauma, attachment, and autism. Angie is on a mission to help parents who are overwhelmed, frustrated, and questioning their ability to parent their most challenging child. She helps parents with practical tools to connect, enjoy, and even like their child again.

Angie is also the founder of Connected Parents with Angie - a coaching program designed for you - the loving and capable parent who can't figure out why raising your child is so frustrating, so overwhelming, and causing you to question your ability to parent. Using her unique approach of trauma-focused mindset lesson and coaching tools, Angie helps her clients get back to a life they love - creating cherished memories, feeling fulfilled in relationships, and letting go of frustration, resent, and overwhelm.

If you'd like to see if coaching is the solution for you, check out this video Angie made for you: https://youtu.be/qCL1SIe8kG0?si=B68dqmzmDFLT3zSZ

And when you've decided you're ready to take the leap for your family, book a free consult - Angie will help you decide if coaching is right for you: https://calendly.com/angiegrandt/free_session

Learn more about Connected Parents with Angie here: www.connectedparentswithangie.com

And follow Angie: https://www.instagram.com/connectedparentswithangie/

https://www.facebook.com/connectedparentswithangie

❤ Angie Grandt, The Adoption Coach