A child’s intensity is a gift that needs to be nurtured. Unfortunately, many parents, mental health professionals, and educators find themselves struggling with the intensity of a challenging child. Faced with uncontrolled anger, aggression, defiance, and disrespect from an intense child, most adults react by increasing the severity of normal methods and ways of interacting. 

 

Despite the best of intentions, the more adults attempt common theories and practices with a challenging child, the worse the situation becomes. Faced with escalating acting out, the intense child is often diagnosed as ADHD or more at a first evaluation and prescribed medications that risk serious lifelong physical, psychological and social side effects - simply because there has not been an approach that consistently helps them to use their intensity successfully. Until now.

 

The culprits are the methods most people have at their disposal…not the parents, therapists, teachers, or the child. Approaches designed for the average child are not powerful or encompassing enough to have a transformative effect on children with behaviors involving opposition, defiance, or inability to manage strong impulses or emotions.

 

The Nurtured Heart Approach has been proven to create the transformational impact and change people have been searching - quickly and in inspiring and enduring ways. All involved gain a sense of positive influence and confidence by way of the success that flows, and they come to experience that the very same intensity that seemed so distressing and problematic is actually the fuel for a child’s greatness.