In today’s episode, Brooke speaks with Cara Tyrrell, the founder of Core4Parenting. She started out in early childhood education and pivoted to create courses to help set up parents for success in raising school, world-ready kids. She has a Master’s degree in Education and knew it could take her different directions, but she started out in the classroom. She saw year after year that kids came to the classroom less and less ready to learn in every area of the classroom. They lacked social skills, emotional skills and how to control that to respond appropriately. She left the classroom prior to the pandemic and had a nudge that knew this problem started at home and happens between birth and 5 years old. She started creating the courses and curriculum. At the time she had this idea, she went to work as a nanny. She was using strategies that became her courses and saw them work. When the pandemic hit, she saw this as her sign to take her courses to the world. Cara says it’s vital to see the world through our kids’ perspective. The value of her courses is meant to give you tools to help your child meet the four readiness skill areas. It helps the parent connect with their child and observe who they are and what their struggles and triggers are. It is also learning how to recognize what type of words help your child stop, listen, process and problem solve with you. It helps parents collaborate with their child and develop a relationship with their child while the children still think their parents hung the moon. If we win the toddler years, we’ve already won the teenage years. If your kids are out of the 0-5 years, you can still impact your kids by including them in the option to be part of the problem solving. When you as the adult recognize the environment is calm and collected, that is a good opportunity to open a conversation with them and invite them to be an idea maker, they will feel trusted and respected. Maybe their idea isn’t something you can approve but laying out what will happen and expecting them to respond is not the way to build the four connectors. As a teacher, Cara knew how to organize her day and she had the framework figured out for the classroom. It was a different ballgame for an online business owner. She wishes she had known to broaden her thinking because she couldn’t walk into the online space and just teach. She had to learn the things she needed to reach the people so she could make an impact. Cara makes a point to read The Alchemist once a year. She knows it’s fiction but it’s based on the premise that what we need or treasure is already here. She finds she can get bogged down in the weeds of doing and she goes back to the book and it grounds her. Her favorite digital course is her American Sign Language course. It blends a lot of her loves and empowers kids with a voice before they have one. It encompasses 24 signs that we say the most to our kids in their first 2 years of life. It’s one new sign per day over the course of three weeks. 2023 is very exciting for Cara. On Jan 3, she will be launching her podcast called Raising Gen Z and is about parenting post-pandemic. The trailer is up and ready to listen to. Also in early January, her live program for toddler moms will open again to help set up kids to be kindergarten ready. Cara has a shirt that says, World Ready Kids will Change the World. That is the legacy she wants to leave. Our world is suffering and we need adults that will add value to the world. Covid devastated our world in a lot of ways but there were people who saw an opportunity to serve the babies that grew up during Covid. Bio:Cara Tyrrell is the mother of two grown girls, an early childhood educator and the founder of Core4Parenting. While teaching preschool and Kindergarten, she identified a pattern of underdeveloped skills sets in her students leading to a professional pivot as an online Early Childhood Parent Educator. Cara has Bachelor degrees in American Sign Language (ASL) and Linguistics and a Master’s degree in Education. Her science-based courses and conscious coaching programs empower new moms to embrace their parenting personal development journey while teaching them how to maximize their baby’s early learning.Links:@core4parenting