How to reduce your child’s meltdowns: Decoding what your child’s difficult behaviours may be telling you about their needs.

Do you wish you could be confident about how to respond to your child’s meltdowns and difficult behaviours? Common parenting strategies for dealing with challenging behaviour leave parents in an emotional tug-of-war with their child, trying to make them stop their meltdowns or undesirable behaviour.

Challenging feelings and behaviours don’t need to be stopped; they need to be understood! Once we know how to decode the messages in a child’s behaviour, we can become an ally to our child, partnering with them to meet their needs, resolving meltdowns and other challenges and creating a deeper connection with our child.

Take a fresh look at your child’s challenging moments and what these might be telling you about their needs. Parent Coach Nicki Pittorino will shed light on how psychological, physiological, nutritional and environmental needs play a part in children’s behaviour, giving you the knowledge and confidence to create a healthy, peaceful and connected family.

Nicki Pittorino provides coaching and support to parents of children with emotional and behavioural challenges. She draws on a broad knowledge base from psychology and the parent-child relationship, the nervous system, nutrition and gut health to environmental and lifestyle factors. Her coaching practice is called Whole Picture Parenting. Nicki has a Bachelor Degree in Psychology and is a certified Parent Coach with Happily Family. She has attended the Mindd International Forum, The Executive Function Online Summit, the Anxiety Summit, Natasha Daniels’ OCD online training course and the PANS Australia Conference. She has had the privilege of learning from some amazing educators, a broad range of practitioners and best of all, from her own two children.