This weeks guest has a passion for raising awareness about a silent epidemic that affects all of us: every country, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, faith and creed, single or dual parent homes, yet it is stigmatized and not talked about. It is prenatal exposure to alcohol.
Patricia says if your children are not responding as expected to traditional approaches of parenting or discipline, chances are that the root of the problem is altered wiring in the brain from prenatal exposure to toxins and/or trauma (there are over 50,000 things that can alter the development of a baby in the womb), which means there are biological reasons why rewards and consequences, praise or punishment are not changing their behavior. Patricia isn't about shaming mamas! She just wants to raise awareness.
She is also a trainer and neurobehavioral coach, a Certified VIRTUAL Coach, a podcaster with a podcast, Living with FASD. and if that wasn't enough she is writing a book geared to reaching the 16.6 million adults in the US who are impacted by prenatal exposure to alcohol, most of whom have no clue.
When we understand both how our children's brains, changed by drugs, alcohol and/or trauma, drive their behavior, and as we understand what we bring to the table in our interactions with our children, these shifts will happen.
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