In today’s episode, I invite you into my real-time 1:1 coaching session with a mom navigating one of the most common parenting challenges: transitions—specifically, leaving the beach. What starts as a fun, connected family day quickly turns into resistance, ignoring, and a full shutdown when it’s time to go.

Despite giving warnings and doing all the “right things,” she finds herself in a power struggle with her five-year-old, leaving everyone frustrated and disconnected. Together, we unpack what’s really going on beneath the behavior, why transitions are so hard for young kids, and how what looks like defiance is often a child struggling with stopping, shifting, and handling disappointment all at once.

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