I was very keen to get today's guest Chrissie on the podcast as I've been following her for a while now and always gain valuable tips and advice from her Instagram stories. Chrissie is an educator, consultant, writer, guest speaker, loving mama of two and a passionate advocate for understanding children with challenging behave ours.

If you like me have a child starting school or kinder in the next few years you must listen to this episode!

Chrissie shares how her and her husband adopted both her children here in Australia which a lot of people don't realise you can do. We just touch on this today but if you want to hear more about this and Chrissie and her husband's journey to grow their family I recommend you listen to episode 2 of season 2 of the 'Mamas on a Mission' podcast it's an incredible story and I advise that you listen to it with a box of tissues!

In today's episode we cover a lot including:

- Positive communication - choosing the right words for children that makes them to do what you want them to do rather than making the situation worse

- How children are creatures of connection

- How we need to reward children for their good behaviour and not just focus on their bad behaviour

- How we can best start preparing our children for kinder and school and the importance of empowering our children rather than always problem solving for them

- The importance of setting boundaries in our businesses and if we started for the flexibility around family life always coming back to this

I hope you learn a lot from this episode and I definitely suggest you listen to this with a paper and pen handy!

You can find Chrissie at https://chaostocalmconsultancy.com/ on Instagram @chrissiechaostocalm and on Facebook @chaostocalmconsultancy.