Quality Behavioral Coaching

12/02/2025

We’re excited to announce our partnership with Finding Trusted Care, a service created to help families access reliable, high-quality caregivers with confidence.

Who is Finding Trusted Care?
Finding Trusted Care (FTC) connects families with pre-vetted, experienced, and qualified caregivers and short-term or flexible care needs. Their team completes a thorough vetting process, ensuring each caregiver meets high standards in safety, professionalism, and experience.

What Does FTC Offer to Families?
✨ Access to a network of trusted caregivers
✨ Caregivers who are fully screened and qualified
✨ Flexible support — occasional, part-time, or consistent care
✨ Peace of mind built on safety, reliability, and transparency
✨ A quick and supportive matching process

Our partnership with FTC allows QBC families to feel confident knowing they have a dependable resource for childcare support whenever life gets busy or schedules shift.

If you’re interested in learning more or connecting with a caregiver through Finding Trusted Care, we’re happy to guide you!

12/01/2025

🌿 Back-to-School Transitions: Dos and Don’ts For Kids Who Don’t Love School

The first week back can feel heavy for kids who don’t naturally enjoy school.
It’s a lot like the vacation blues adults feel — shifting from freedom to structure, from comfort to routine, from flexible days to early mornings. Their bodies feel it, even if they can’t explain it.

And here’s the truth we don’t talk about enough:
Transitions are hard for parents, too.
You’re carrying your emotions and their emotions, often at the same time. That’s a double load — not a sign that you’re doing anything wrong.

Here’s a grounding reminder for those tougher moments:

“I don’t have to match my child’s emotions — I just have to offer steady ground.”

Your child doesn’t need perfection.
They don’t need you to enjoy every moment.
They just need your presence, your steadiness, and your willingness to show up — even imperfectly.

And you’re already doing that.
You’re doing better than you think. 💛

So here are a few grounded “DO/Avoid” supports to help everyone move through the week with more connection and fewer meltdowns:

11/29/2025

During the holidays, emotions run high and so do behaviors — for kids and adults.
That’s why understanding what consequences are not is so important.

Consequences should never come from frustration, fear, or our need for control.
They work best when they’re connected, calm, and rooted in teaching… not punishment.

Swipe through to explore the six things consequences aren’t,
then use the reflection questions at the end to slow the moment down.
Because when we pause, we teach.
And when we connect, our kids’ capacity grows.
✨ Connection Creates Capacity. ✨

11/25/2025

Big emotions can pull us in before we even realize it.
But we don’t have to carry what isn’t ours.
This is your reminder that you can be present, steady, and supportive —
without losing yourself in someone else’s wave.
With them, not in them. 🤍

Follow for more encouragement, positive insight, and helpful resources!

11/24/2025

If you feel that one of the most confusing parts of being your child’s or client’s safe place in the midst of their dysregulation is noticing that your own body starts reacting right along with them, this Blog is for YOU!

You might feel jittery, tense, overstimulated, or on-edge… and wonder:
“Is this my anxiety? Or am I picking up theirs?”

Dive into this blog to get the full insight on seeing the difference between absorbing their energy verses observations and stablizing.

https://www.qualitybehavioralcoaching.com/post/are-you-absorbing-your-child-s-or-client-s-anxiety-or-actually-co-regulationlwng

One of the most confusing parts of working with dysregulated children or clients—especially when you’re emotionally intuitive, or highly attuned—is noticing that your own body starts reacting right along with them.You might feel jittery, tense, overstimulated, or on-edge… and wonder:“Is th...

11/21/2025

Feel-Good Friday Regulation Check-In

I’m putting together a 5-day Emotional Regulation Series starting NEXT week — breaking down what happens from the moment you get triggered to the moment you come back into your body. Tools that are so needed especially when there is a change in routine even if it is a holiday break.

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, misread, overstimulated, or tired of “holding it together,” this is for you!

Drop a “🦃” if you want me to tag you when it starts.

11/20/2025

✨ Making Space for Grace ✨

Mistakes happen — and guilt or shame can show up fast. But when we make space for grace, we create room to breathe, learn, and connect.

Grace isn’t one-sided.
It’s a two-way street:
offering help when someone needs it, and asking receiving help when we do.

Mistakes become moments where support flows both directions — reminding us we don’t have to carry things alone.

Grace says:
“It’s okay to mess up. You are still worthy, still loved, still accepted.”

When we practice grace this way, everyone grows.
Make space for grace — to give it, and to ask and receive it.

11/19/2025

A Special Message for Caregivers when you start to feel that you have no time or energy for you.

Remember to Take a PAUSE.

Here are some subtle reminders that give your nervous system the signal:
“I am allowed to pause.”
• Place one hand on your chest for 10 seconds
• Gradually extend your exhale
• Lean your body against a wall for support
• Whisper to yourself, “I’m doing the best I can right now”
• Sit in the car for 30 seconds before exiting

These are not tasks, but rather micro-adjustments to incorporate during your pause, because you too need care.g ti f

11/18/2025

Supporting kids shouldn’t feel like guessing.
Whether you’re a teacher trying to manage a classroom or a parent navigating big emotions at home…you deserve tools that actually WORK.

This week, I’m releasing a new set of free behavior resources, including:
✔ A quick attachment-style mini assessment
✔ Regulation strategies for each attachment pattern
✔ Printable behavior visuals
✔ Scripts to use when kids are overwhelmed
✔ Tools for reducing power struggles

My mission: give families and educators practical, trauma-informed strategies that bring more peace and connection—without adding more to your plate.

📥 Comment “TOOLS” and I’ll send them your way.
📌 Follow for weekly free resources, trainings, and behavior tips.

11/17/2025

NEW on the QBC Blog ✨
“Put Your Oxygen Mask on First: Why Your Regulation Comes Before Your Child’s”

Before you dive back into the whirlwind of today,
take 4 minutes to fuel your tank.
Read this blog in hopes that it gently reminds you:

🌿 You are human.
🌿 You deserve compassion, too.
🌿 Your nervous system matters just as much as your child’s.
🌿 And you don’t have to keep showing up from survival mode.

This new post speaks to every:
🍎 Teacher who’s holding everyone together
🤍 Mom who’s juggling the emotional load of the whole house
🌱 Caregiver who gives more than they ever receive back
🧠 Leader who wants to respond instead of react

Inside the blog, you’ll find encouragement and simple tools to help you:

✨ identify your triggers before correcting behavior
✨ reduce emotional intensity in the moment
✨ protect connection even during hard mornings
✨ model grace by practicing it toward yourself
✨ and remember why your oxygen mask comes first — always

If you’ve been feeling stretched thin, overwhelmed, or like your reactions don’t match your intentions…
this is the reminder your heart needed today.

💛 Take a breath, take 4 minutes, and read the full blog here:

https://www.qualitybehavioralcoaching.com/post/put-your-oxygen-mask-on-first-the-real-work-of-regulating-ourselves-before-leading-our-children

And if it resonates, we’d love for you to stay connected:
👉 Follow our page
👉 Join the QBC Newsletter
👉 Reach out if you need community or support — none of us are meant to regulate alone.

Your calm matters.
Your well-being matters.
And you deserve to refill your tank, too.

11/13/2025

🌿 Supportive Language for Connection & Regulation

A guide for parents, teachers, and caregivers who want to lead with understanding, not just correction.

11/12/2025

You’ve seen it before — a child refusing to listen, talking back, or melting down.
At first glance, it looks like defiance.
But sometimes… it’s dysregulation — a nervous system in distress, not a child being disrespectful.

💭 The difference?
Defiance is won’t.
Dysregulation is can’t.

They can look the same — arguing, shutting down, refusing — but the root cause and the right response are completely different.

👉 Defiance means the child still has control.
That’s when we hold structure, stay calm, and offer choices.
👉 Dysregulation means the child has lost control.
That’s when we co-regulate, lower our tone, and help their body feel safe again.

When parents learn to tell the difference, everything changes — the home, the relationship, the child’s ability to grow and learn.

💚 Read the full blog at Quality Behavioral Coaching to learn how to observe, respond, and support your child with compassion and clarity.

By Quality Behavioral Coaching- Eden MabryWe’ve all been there — a child refuses to listen, talks back, storms off, or suddenly breaks down in tears.In that moment, it’s tempting to think: “They’re just being defiant.” But what if what looks like defiance is sometimes something deeper .....