WANT A HAPPY, MOTIVATED, CONFIDENT KID
YOU CAN ENJOY AGAIN?

KIRK & CASEY WILL MENTOR YOU AND YOUR KIDS PERSONALLY.

HAVE YOU CONSIDERED THIS?
(1) You are overlooking, ignoring, and even dismissing your child’s natural gifts, talents, and passions–the very strengths that produce confidence and a future profession–by focusing almost solely on good grades and behaving well. Misplaced focus is crushing your child’s confidence and spirit.

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(2) The very traits that annoy you most are the very traits necessary for your child’s success in life. But we discount these traits because we focus on the wrong priorities.That child who won’t take no for an answer, who can argue successfully with great critical thinking skills, who knows how to push buttons has all the traits of a natural salesperson–yet we never give them an opportunity to use these traits in positive, constructive ways. Rather, they get punished for these traits.

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(3) Your kids never get to use their actual gifts, talents, and passions because they aren’t rewarded in school or with a grade. So we dismiss them, with dire consequences. Why do you think your kids have to control everyone and everything, disappear into their screens, and pick on siblings? Because they don’t feel good about themselves and don’t have a purpose they care about.

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(4) You dismiss your child’s natural curiosity during the normal school year because you’re too focused on getting everything done–the mad dash to school, rushing to extracurricular activities, power struggles over dinner and bedtime and homework and chores. You must feed your child’s natural curiosity. Dismiss this at your peril. Or embrace it and watch your child’s confidence soar. Stop spending all your time trying to fix what’s wrong…and instead build on their strengths.

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(5) Project-based learning is extremely effective for our kids. You have a huge opportunity now. Most schools are closed and grades don’t even count. So why not say, “School isn’t the only way to learn. Let’s take this as an opportunity to learn by allowing our child to pursue his or her natural curiosity through a project–like building a robot, creating a product or service, getting a job, doing service projects, learning a new language or instrument.”

You have been given an extraordinary gift during this time–the gift of slowing down, of focusing on what’s really important without the usual pressure of an arbitrary school year. We will use Personality Tests to identify areas on conflict and cooperation between you and your strong-willed child to tailor a parenting plan for you. Don’t squander this opportunity! Do this on your own or let us help you.

We invite you to join Kirk and Casey in our Motivation & Curiosity Camp while they have extra time to personally mentor you via email, diagnostic tools, and brainstorming sessions. See below for pictures of what our enterprising kids can do. Taking care of animals. Creating candles to sell online. One awesome single Mom encouraged her daughter to do both dance and competitive shooting–now she’s training for the Junior Olympics–think that hasn’t made her confidence skyrocket? Training service animals. Baking, catering birthday parties. Building robots and birdhouses and duct tape wallets. Learning how to play guitar and speak fluent German by watching YouTube videos (that was Casey). The ideas are endless.

(4) This will change how your child sees him or herself—as confident, capable, valuable, with something to offer others, with many positive traits and strengths. Traits and gifts that usually get overlooked or dismissed get rewarded and affirmed. No more feeling dumb or stupid. This is when your child excels.

(5) This will change how you see your child—not always great at school, but exceptional at real life applications. You’ll see that curiosity and energy focused on completing projects. You’ll see a driven, persistent, goal-oriented child with a big heart.

(6) We will show you how to parent your challenging child more specifically through scientific testing. As part of the program, the parents and strong-willed child will take a personality test that we have personally used in our family. This leads to much greater understanding between everyone’s values, strengths, and communication styles.

(7) Casey will challenge your kids to develop new personal habits: Self-discipline, delayed gratification, writing down concrete goals, creating vision through positive affirmations and self-talk (to counter the negative narrative in the brain), impulse control, follow through, time management, prioritization.

(8) Your kids will learn math, reading, writing and real life skills through practical applications such as calculating the cost of ingredients, profit margin, writing marketing copy, creating flyers, etc. Serving other people or even running a business forces you to mature and learn how to make tough decisions, deal with rejection, problem solve, listen to customers, communicate well, and problem solve.

(9) Being good at one thing and doing something purposeful will give your kids the confidence to be motivated in school. Help them accomplish something they love first and give them a reason to care about school.

(10) You will get your kids off screens (and each other) and busy doing something purposeful. Draw out your child’s curiosity to spur academic curiosity and purpose.