08/07/2026
Here’s how one mum went from complaint calls from school (about her son throwing tables in the classroom) to hearing daily good reports from his teachers in just a few weeks — and it wasn’t because she got “stricter.”
Meet Leona.
When she first came to me, she and her husband had reached breaking point with their son.
For years, they believed the best way to raise him was to be harsh. At home, he was the “perfect” child.
But she started receiving calls from school — first in preschool, and later in primary school — that he was having gigantic episodes of rage. I’m talking throwing tables, hurting classmates, terrorising other children on the school bus.
Things got so bad that his preschool teacher suggested sending him for a mental evaluation. (No diagnosis came back, by the way — because, to put it bluntly: The issue wasn’t the boy; the issue was the parenting.)
Because over many years of his life, his parents had used fear and force to scare him into being the perfect kid at home.
And when home didn’t feel safe enough for his emotions, all that anger, fear, and hurt came out somewhere else. School became the place where he finally exploded.
Leona reached out to me and we worked on repairing the parent-child connection, rebuilding emotional safety, and replacing fear-based discipline with steps that actually taught him what to do with his feelings.
And just a few weeks later, Leona sent me this: “This week is the first week that we’ve received daily good reports from his teachers and school counsellor, that he has been having good emotional control…”
If you want to start building this kind of emotional safety with your child, my book set “The World May Say This, But I Believe That!” is a beautiful place to begin.
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