My 8 yr-old son and child no. 3 out of 4 children in my family, has experienced significant improvement in managing his emotions, interpersonal relations, self-esteem, confidence, studying habits, and general happiness since starting Hoppity coaching sessions with Teacher Tammy 12 months ago. Before he started Hoppity coaching sessions, he had a very hard time expressing his emotions and physical/emotional needs, and he had a lot of anger and frustration in him that he would get into severe physical fights and heated arguments with his siblings daily. He also used to have a very hard time operating at school due to his emotional shutdowns (and boredom as we later learned through Hoppity Coaching), and received numerous complaints from his teachers frequently. He would emotionally and verbally shut down and unable to express his needs after each emotional blow-out or unhappy episode at school, and my husband and I were at a complete loss on how to understand and help him. We were at the end of our ropes when Teacher Candy offered us to try Hoppity Coaching. At first we were unsure as we felt it was like going through "therapy" and we didn't feel we needed "therapy", but we had tried everything to help and teach my son with no success, and we were desperately at the end of our rope, so we thought it wouldn't hurt to try Hoppity Coaching as a last resort. Thank God we made a leap of faith and started Hoppity Coaching with our son! It was a rocky start and during the first 1-2 months of coaching my son didn't seem to improve. Despite the lack of obvious improvement, Teacher Tammy continued to patiently guide and coach him to recognize emotional triggers and blow-outs, acknowledge his feelings, express his feelings and needs in acceptable ways. Teacher Tammy also firmly and persistently helped my son recognize his strengths, abilities and to appreciate his uniqueness, equipped him with tools and phrases to communicate his needs and feelings effectively. Teacher Tammy also taught my husband and me on how to manage my son's emotional blow-outs and misbehaviors effectively and productively. My son now no longer hits his siblings and is able to verbally express his needs during disagreement, and he has much fewer emotional blow-outs than before the coaching. He used to be easily saddened and held a lot of grudges against others, and he used to easily get frustratted on challenging homework. Now, after 12 months of coaching and using the Hoppity parenting techniques, we see that our son is a lot happier, a lot better at solving interpersonal conflicts, and doesn't get frustrated easily when he works on a difficult math problem or mundane Chinese homework. He is able to find ways to release his anger or frustration through speaking assertively his needs, and distracting himself through other activities (i.e. running and swimming), instead of aggressively hitting his siblings and having emotionally meltdown.
We are very grateful for Teacher Tammy and Teacher Candy's dedication, patience and ongoing encouragement to both my son, me & my husband over the past 12 months of coaching sessions with my son. Through the Hoppity coaching sessions, we all feel a lot more equipped to manage our emotions, express our needs and problem-solve conflicts. My husband and I also used our learning from the coaching sessions to better understand and communicate with our other 3 children. We are planning to start teenage coaching sessions with Hoppity for one of our tween children after this successful experience. Our family is a lot happier and we are enjoying closer parent-kids relationships as a result of the coaching. Thank you so much Teacher Tammy and Teacher Candy for serving our family through Hoppity Coaching!