Early in my career as a behavior analyst, I noticed something that would shape the foundation of my work with parents: the idea of the “light switch“. I always credit the unique opportunity I had in graduate school to work with adults with traumatic brain injuries. I had the privilege of serving on an interdisciplinary […]
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When potty training has stalled, many parents start searching for help online. They can find some pretty surprising (and costly) potty training options out there. One recent Behave Your Best family had done just that. They found a specialist who would fly in and potty train their spirited three-year-old over a weekend for a whopping
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If you’re comparing parent coaching services by reading through reviews of behavioral therapy companies, you already know the tip lists only go so far. What you actually want to know is whether a company’s results hold up once the consultant leaves the room. As a Licensed and Board Certified Behavior Analyst, I am bound by
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When a child is struggling, parents rarely come to us in a vacuum. More often, a team is already forming around the family: a pediatrician who flagged a concern, a teacher sending home behavioral notes, a therapist working on anxiety, or a neuropsychologist who just completed an evaluation. At Behave Your Best, we put a
If you had told me years ago that one of my most recognized titles would be “potty training expert,” I might have laughed. But it turns out, potty training was the perfect entry point to launch Behave Your Best—and it happened almost by accident. When my son was a baby, I navigated what many moms
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When I first started Behave Your Best, I kept thinking back to the countless moments I had seen parents in stores, classrooms, or playgrounds—doing their best, but unintentionally escalating their child’s behavior. What I wanted to give them wasn’t judgment, but tools. Something simple, affordable, and effective that they could use right away to create
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When I founded Behave Your Best in 2011, I didn’t set out to build a company. I set out to share what I knew, because I realized I had something most parents didn’t: training in behavior analysis.
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