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Help Your Child Manage Impulses with Control


Teach your child how to pause, reflect, and choose better behaviors.

Mastering Impulse Control

Course Overview Play Icon

  • icon Recognize Triggers: Identify and manage emotional or physical cues of impulsivity.
  • icon Mindfulness Practice: Use meditation and movement techniques to regulate responses.
  • icon Delayed Gratification: Build patience to improve focus and success.
  • icon Stop, Think, Act: Apply techniques to pause and assess before reacting.
  • icon Communication Skills: Strengthen relationships by expressing emotions constructively.

Course Badges

React less, reflect more. These badges show you've built the power to pause, manage urges, and choose wisely under pressure.
Blink Fox – The Reactor
Blink Fox – The Reactor

This badge shows you’re starting to catch your impulses in action. Like the Blink Fox, you notice what stirs before it strikes.

 

Earn this badge by completing module 1 of this course.

Stone Ox – The Balancer
Stone Ox – The Balancer

This badge shows you’ve found power in patience. Like the Stone Ox, your strength is in not moving until you mean to. Control isn’t weakness — it’s mastery.

 

Earn this badge by completing module 2 of this course.

Sonic Koi – The Harmonizer
Sonic Koi – The Harmonizer

You’ve earned this badge by mastering the rhythm of communication. Like the Sonic Koi, your words flow with intention — and your silence with care.

 

Earn this badge by completing module 3 of this course.

Prism Golem – The Builder
Prism Golem – The Builder

This badge proves your growth is no longer just in theory. Like the Prism Golem, you’re built from experience — and that structure keeps growing.

 

Earn this badge by completing module 4 of this course.

Meet the Course Creator,
Dr. Kymberli Barker

Dr. Barker is the single mother of two fantastic young men, and they are her priority in life. She holds degrees in biochemistry, math, forensics, and psychology. She is a consultant and a professor at multiple colleges, teaching with the Citadel, and Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, in psychology, criminal justice, and neuroscience and providing international educator training. Her psychology specializations are police, the US Military, and first responders. Her personal focus is child advocacy. She developed the Guardian ad Litem/(GAL)/CASA program for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and is tribally and state sworn as a GAL. She lives at the beach with her newly adopted puppy and they both love playing in the water. Her favorite thing is being a mom.

Kymberli Barker