Scott Ervin

Dear Kid Whisperer, I’ve read your book, and I have a question about student jobs. Is it a bad idea to make sure every student has some kind of job?...

I am struggling with my calm signal by itself being enough to stop me from raising my voice. I was successful for a while with it at school with my...

I have come up against a behavior with my eighth-grade students that I don’t know what to do with. And this behavior has multiplied in one of my class periods...

I have a nagging 5-year-old who won’t take “no” for an answer. I have done my best to turn off my brain and repeat the same line over and over,...

My 12-year-old struggles with boredom. She is very smart, and when she’s not stimulated, she gets bored very easily. When she’s not on her tablet, she’s basically bored instantly. I’m...

We are living through The Era of Collective Parental Psychosis: a time whereby we have forsaken the Collective Parental Wisdom amassed by parents throughout all of human evolution to instead...

Dear Kid Whisperer, How do you handle an almost 4-year-old who wants to control everything?

Dear Kid Whisperer, I was recently, and mercifully, on vacation. The hotel pool was packed with people, many of whom had their children of all ages in the pool with...

Dear Kid Whisperer, I have been using your strategies with my kids, and their behavior has improved so much that I feel like I am able, for the first time,...

Dear Kid Whisperer, I came to see a parent workshop you did, and I used the strategies that you taught. It has changed my life and my relationship with my...