We believe parents need 3 keys to balance, guide, and recharge their parenthood:

Re-connect to intuition for open, honest, and meaningful reflection

and communication.


Accurate information about how all of us, parents and children alike, operate and what to expect.


Tools that actually help us work and our children work through challenges.


Quick course: "Try this instead..."

Simple switches to transform headaches, conflicts, and power struggles into a more fun and harmonious relationship for you and your young child.

Our just over an hour, busy-schedule friendly course that you can complete in little chunks to implement simple yet life changing practices.

You might like our strategy if you're asking yourself:


"Why is it getting my kid dressed for the day so exhausting?"

"Why does every bedtime leave me ready to pull my hair out?"

"How come I’m ready to crack over all this small stuff when every other parent seems to be getting along just fine?"


You've likely educated yourself on at least one aspect of parenthood, like looking up how to get your kids to eat healthy foods or fall asleep on their own, or maybe how to keep yourself from turning into one of your own parents while you parent...

You are not clueless or lazy, and you have certainly have been putting your child first in many, many ways because you want to love and support them more than anything else in the world...

So why do you feel so often like not a good enough parent, despite the good, hard work you do every single day?

"Parents are humans too. We deserve to parent ourselves as devoutly as we parent our children."

- Jenny Murtagh, Co-Founder of TPEM

No one gave you a manual when you became a parent. Yet the job description is staggering.

Somehow you're supposed to know how to talk to your child in a way that they’ll listen, how to wrangle a tantruming toddler in the midst of the storm, and how to keep them emotionally and physically safe in an increasing complex world. You're told to meet everyone else’s expectations for you in life, while still feeling the pressure (and probably your own desire) to fulfill your life purpose as an individual. On top of it all, you’re expected to manage all this pressure without breaking down, simply because people have been parenting since the dawn of time and no one has ever recorded a death by parenting...

...but it's really, really hard.

Sign up for "Try this instead"

Get our tried and true strategies, that work both in the classroom and at home, to make parenting young children feel better, easier, and a closer match to what you thought your parent story would always look like.

We're Felicia and Jenny

Together we've got logged almost 30 years helping young children and families as teachers, coaches, and educational program directors/managers. We’re parents ourselves and experience first hand the difference it makes to pull our 3 keys together to feel satisfied in parenthood and happy in who we are! We started The Parent Empowerment Movement to help you do that as well.