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Raising Kids with Big Baffling Behaviors:

A Course for Parents

Created By Robyn Gobbel, MSW

Facilitated by Ledette Gambini, LMFT, RPT and Registered Course Facilitator

Are you an adoptive parent of a child with a vulnerable nervous system and big baffling behaviors?

This 12-week online course will help you understand the meaning behind your child’s behaviors and teach you the skills you need to support them. Using a trauma and adoption informed lens, we will delve into how your and your child’s brain and nervous system work, why your child gets dysregulated, and why we as parents do as well. And most importantly you will learn how to stay connected to your child when they need you the most..

Created by Robyn Gobbel and based on the USA Best Selling book by the same name, Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors: A Course for Parents make your child’s behavior make sense- even the ones that don’t. You’ll become equipped with interventions, tools, and techniques- that actually work! And in this no-shame, no blame approach to parenting, you’ll finally understand why knowing is only half the battle. The course is strategically designed so you don’t just learn a bunch of parenting tools and techniques. By the end, you’ll actually be able to do the powerful techniques you’ll learn.

While this course will benefit all parents of children with vulnerable nervous systems, including children with a history of trauma and toxic stress, as well as children who are neurodivergent, gifted, have sensory processing differences, or neuroimmune disorders, Ledette will tailor the content specifically for adoptive families.

Behavior is just a clue. It’s what we see on the outside that gives us some information about what might be happening on the inside.

Three Core Tenets

We all need connection to survive. If your child is behaving in a way that makes us not want to be connected to them, we can pause and ask “What’s up with that?”

Regulated, connected kids who feel safe behave well.

To change children’s behaviors, we will look for ways to increase regulation, connection, and felt-safety.

Course Breakdown

Section 1

How to Become the Expert in Your Child’s Behaviors. Using the science of being relationally, socially, and behaviorally human, this section will demystify the most baffling behaviors. You’ll change how to see and interpret your child’s behavior. That change will become the most powerful tool in your parenting toolbox.

Section 2

Now, Let’s “Fix” Those Behaviors. Your parenting toolbox will be stuffed with brain, body, and sensory strategies- that actually work. These techniques will strengthen your child’s nervous system and decrease baffling behaviors. Better yet, by the end of this section you’ll know what interventions to use when.

Section 3

Why Knowing Isn’t Even Half the Battle. You aren’t a bad parent, so what happens between learning new parenting skills and actually using those new parenting skills? Section 3 will grow your tolerance for baffling behaviors so you can parent the way that you want to.

This course is right for you if you are:

  • Ready to move past behavior intervention techniques

  • Longing to find a way to see your child’s true self…even if they never show it to you

  • Willing to do the hard work of looking inward to move onward

This course might not be the best fit if you are:

  • Looking for behavior interventions to change your child’s behaviors

  • Most comfortable with consequence-based parenting interventions

  • Not interested in considering and addressing the underlying cause of difficult behaviors

  • Parenting a child with chronically dangerous behaviors (violence, aggression, substance abuse, sexually acting out, self-injury, etc.)

The Details

Dates: 12 consecutive Wednesdays - March 5 thru May 21, 2025

Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm PST

Location: Virtual - via Zoom

What’s Included?

  • 18 hours of live online instruction and discussion

  • A comprehensive 86-page workbook with many visuals to support you in integrating these new ideas.

  • A copy of the book Raising Kids With Big Baffling Behaviors

  • One 50 minute private consultation with Ledette to help apply the information to your unique child and family

  • A private Facebook community for class participants

  • Small class size (maximum 10 participants)

Investment: $750 per person

(payment plans are available - please email me directly - ledette@ledettegambinitherapy.com)

12 Modules

HOW TO BECOME THE EXPERT IN YOUR CHILD’S BEHAVIORS

Module 1

What You See Isn’t What You Get

Module 2

Regulated, Connected Kids Who Feel Safe Do Well

Module 3

A New Lens on Behavior

NOW! LET’S “FIX” THOSE BEHAVIORS

Module 4

Getting to Know the Owl, Watchdog and Possum Brain

Module 5

Growing the Owl Brain with Felt Safety

Module 6

Growing the Owl Brain with Connection and Co-Regulation

Module 7

Calm the Watchdog Brain

Module 8

Calm the Possum Brain

Module 9

What to Do when the Owl Brain Returns

WHY KNOWING ISN’T EVEN HALF THE BATTLE

Module 10

Why You Can Know What to Do and Still Really Struggle to Do It

Module 11

How to Become More Tolerant of Baffling Behaviors

Module 12

Keeping Your Cool When the Chaos Feels Like Too Much