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• How to get ‘right now relief’ in an upset with your kids: stress-reducing strategies for the whole family.
• Strategies to help issues like lying, discipline, anxiety, jealousy, complaining, depression, fighting, won’t do must do’s, arguing, fear, temper tantrums, mistakes, bullying, emotional outbursts, and more.
• Strategies that bring us back to a naturally calm and coherent state.
• The mistakes we don’t mean to make as parents.
• Why I wrote this book: the inspiration, the insights, and the integrity in the restoration of our natural states—where we blossom ourselves and others and forget about blaming and other behaviors we wish we didn’t have.  
• How to teach children to use the strategies to help them stay in or come back to their natural state.
• The Kid Code Playground Podcast.
• Live and recorded online and in-person classes that teach the strategies with certified Kid Code teachers.
• How to become a certified Kid Code teacher.
• What Jack Canfield says about the book.

• Why we need this joyful intervention.
• How to bless a mistake. 
• How blessing a mistake creates connection and respect and punishing someone for a mistake causes them to feel shame, humiliated and devalued, which creates disconnection and disrespect.
• The similarities between this strategy and restorative justice, a movement in schools to ensure dignity and justice are both served for all parties involved in a conflict. 
• Ubuntu, a South African philosophy of unity and respect used in conflicts. 
• How to get rid of anger so blessing a mistake is easier.
• What is the long-forgotten whisper of wellbeing?
• How to teach Blessing Mistakes to children, using stories from Mr. Upalupagus’s Secret Secrets.
• The Blessing Mistakes Movement.

• Kids are natural and want to stay that way.
• How the stories came about.
• The value the stories have in a child’s life.
• Share one story called The Motley Crew in Paris: Mr. Upalupagus, being a bit clumsy, knocks over the Eiffel Tower and Blesses himself. The Crew looks on in horror, you can’t bless yourself when you knock over one of the most famous towers in the world. He takes the opportunity to teach them Blessing Mistakes—there is no good reason to have stress over a mistake. Then he raises his trunk and calls all the elephants in the Paris Zoo and all the ants in the city, and they put the tower back up (which is part two of Blessing Mistakes—make the mistake right). Problem solved. No Stress. 
• The book’s journey to Hollywood!

• Bully basics, bully buttons, and bully tactics:
• How to meet and defeat a bully.
• How to role play so your kids know when a bully has arrived.
• Don’t believe a bully.
• Where bullies come from.
• How to avoid becoming a victim of a bully.
• We all have an inner bully (and we don’t need it anymore).

You can’t put a lid on lava, so when it starts to blow (in kids or adults) it’s good to have some strategies to slow the flow! I give parents ideas for reducing the possibility of a child having a tantrum in the store and what parents can do to stay calm.

50% of the stress in a household can be dissolved on day 1 of everyone using this simple strategy because it works on mistakes and negative states.

It’s important that parents understand the far-reaching effects of emotional upheavals and negative states: they fracture relationships, are biologically addicting, and are physically damaging to us. These are not our natural states, and that’s why we feel so bad when one strikes. This work takes us back to our natural, wise, belly laughing, playful self.

The reader/listener will be entertained by the quirky relationship between parents and their kids, like, how did we go from telling them bedtime stories to them telling us tall tales?

What is wellbeing, and how can we recover it? Is it a new car or a new pair of shoes—or is it a naturally peaceful inner state?

From zero to twenty we do some growing, but not much growing up, not realizing that we do have the ability to keep ourselves much calmer than we do!

Since history does repeat itself, I invite parents to help themselves carve a new parenting path and put themselves in the wise position of being able to teach children how to successfully navigate their conflicts.

This discussion will give parents a break-down of the mechanics at play when an upsetting emotion arises and shows them something they’ve likely never spent much time considering (taught by Eckhart Tolle): big emotions confuse us and then we become irrational—while insisting we’re right. Parenting from this place is painful.

Twenty-seven easily accomplished strategies are offered to parents that will immediately bring them in to a balanced state, and can be used in an upset, or just to establish us more solidly in a coherent state, even when there is no upset (making deposits into our ‘peace bank’).

“Go to sleep,” hollered from my bedroom didn’t work with my kids because dismissing a child’s fears doesn’t dismiss the fear—parents learn two simple strategies to dissolve fear in kids and themselves. I still use this to dissolve fear when it arises!

If you can come to the understanding that consequences are naturally tied to every action we take, it dissolves stress and the need for discipline. One way to explain natural consequences is this: if it’s raining and we go outside without an umbrella, we get wet. The action is going out without an umbrella and the consequences is getting wet. Accept the consequence and there is no problem! To teach this to a child you can invite them to think about all the things that happen when they don’t hand in a test on time and when they do. When they don’t hand the test in on time, the natural consequence is that they have stress, berate themselves, blame others, become a victim, fight with parents, and have stressful consequences from home and school. If they do hand the test in on time, the natural consequence is that they don’t have stress, don’t fight with parents, and don’t have problems with the teacher.

Parents learn ways to forgive themselves when they punish a child, and we examine the idea that punishment doesn’t deliver what it promises to.

Parents will learn how to naturally take their focus off of the problem and put it back onto the person and oddly that makes the solution to the problem easier to find.

A list of common mistakes (for example, looking at our thrones of ignorance: unloading, blaming, judging and criticizing) helps bring parents to the realization that some of the ways we’ve been taught to be in the world are just stressful, not helpful or healthy.

A conversation about this will help parents begin to question beliefs because they are the cause of our pain—kids operate without beliefs so it must be possible—they don’t need a belief to put their hand in ours or to play with a child who has a different skin color. Those ways of being in the world are natural to them. Self-realized Masters don’t have beliefs—or stress. Our nature knows what to do at any time. Do we need to believe in honesty for it be natural to us? Or is it natural without a belief? Might the belief in honesty cement a link to dishonesty in the psyche?

Parents and kids are introduced to a quick way to go from resistance to ‘contemplative’ by using one of Byron Katie’s tools to look at any upset from the opposite position and feel clearer about decisions. For example, if a child says, “I don’t want to go to that school,” invite them to turn it around to “I do want to go to that school,” and find three reasons it’s true or truer.

Parents will become clearer that they have a choice: when an upset comes along, we’ve come to a ‘Y’ in the road (as taught by Guy Finley) and that we’re not too old to say to emotional upsets, “You’re not the boss of me.”

Parents learn a simple way to show kids that they want to feel as good when fun time is over as when it began by practicing the ‘good’ feeling just before the fun time is over.

Several strategies that increase a child’s security are shared here so that parents, whether their child is being bullied, or is the bully, have some tools to bring their kids into a strong, clear state, and to courageously meet and defeat the bully within and in our outer world.

• Parents will be relieved to discover that they learned how to punish themselves and others, and they can unlearn it. They are invited to notice how they feel when they punish anyone, including themselves. It’s not good for the parents wellbeing when they punish a child. How they can know if that’s true is to see (without judging themselves) how they feel during and after punishing someone. 
• When To Correct A Child: Parents are invited to consider what it feels like to give a correction that has no negative energy in it vs. punishing a child. 
• Parents are urged to bless themselves when they make a parenting mistake and then make the mistake right as best as they can. Apologizing won’t kill us; it will just temporarily feel like it—apologizing is for our own freedom.

Once we know, everything changes. When sailors thought the world was flat there was fear and worry about falling off of it. When it was discovered to be round, that awareness changed the sailors perception. The knowledge from doing this work brings understanding to the parent that an ‘aha’ moment from using a strategy does the exact same thing. Awareness changes how we parent when a deeper understanding than we previously had is made known to us.

Parents are given a new perspective on lying and new ways to talk to their kids about lying: lie detectors prove it causes us stress (we’re trying to reduce stress, not create more of it), we’re betraying ourselves when we lie (lying to get the other’s approval is saying we’re not good enough the way we are), and there is a lot of stress-causing pressure to hide, defend or act out the lie.

Because of this letter from a child to the parents, parents will be able to bring more clarity to the impact fighting has on a child and reframe how they fight.

Parents don’t want their kids to experience adversity, yet it’s unavoidable and it’s also the very thing that grows us, so it’s best to teach them the simple strategies for coming into clarity, coherence and understanding when challenges appear.

Parents living with a child who lives and learns differently to us need special parenting skills and some are offered here. If we think they don’t fit, we just haven’t discovered that they do—and that they are good teachers.

How To Bless a Mistake and why it can reduce the stress in a household by 50% on day one of everyone using it. Not getting stressed out over mistakes and negative states is for our own wellbeing. There’s magic in the message, “You matter more than the mistake.” Learn to give yourself and others Grace not grief when a mistake is made—it creates respect and connection, and dissolves stress. Being kind also comes naturally to us. Belittling another doesn’t. How we know that to be true is to see how we feel inside when we bless and when we belittle.

Kindness towards others is for our own wellbeing, too. 

Getting Rid of Anger is vital because it gets in the way of wishing others well. Not giving anger a place in our lives is important because it’s towards our own wellbeing.

Teaching Children to Bless Mistakes through stories from Mr. Upalupagus’s Secret Secrets.

Sample Story: Yelling Boo is Not Good for You: Mr. King Cobra with no fangs keeps scaring Ms. Gazelle and nothing seems to stop him. Ms. Gazelle avoiding him doesn’t stop him, Ms. Gazelle screeching in his ear doesn’t stop him, even when she accidentally kicks him when he scares her didn’t stop him. Tuskie has a secret secret that stopped him!

Learn to recognize when you’ve encountered a bully by how they act and what they say.

Insecurity makes us into bullies and into victims.

Learn strategies to dissolve the beliefs that attract a bully.

Simple self-inquiry methods melt away the inner critic, the inner judge, jury, and executioner.

This valuable strategy gives kids an advantage when they meet a bully and helps them know what to say and do.