Local families
$349 up to 2 hours, in your home
- In-home, where the hard moments actually happen
- Your written Family Game Plan, plus the exact words to use
- A 7-day check-in
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About
Meet Shay Guynn
M.Ed.BCBA since 201323+ years in educationMom since 2007
With 23+ years in classrooms and school leadership, a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) since 2013, and, most importantly, a mom to one awesome son since 2007, Shay understands behavior from both sides: professionally and personally.
Today, she supports busy parents who are exhausted by daily battles over getting ready and out the door, homework, screens, bedtime, and everything in between.
Through her Pause. Decode. Respond. approach, parents learn to uncover what is contributing to their child's challenging behavior(s), create predictable routines, and use practical, in-the-moment scripts, so they know what to do and say when their child pushes back.
The ultimate goal: end the daily battles that wear them down in 90 days (or less), without yelling or bribing, by visualizing measurable momentum in the first two weeks.
But this work is also personal for Shay.
Years ago, it was another weeknight at the kitchen table. She was staring at homework with her 14-year-old son, already bracing for the same battle they had the night before.
And this, my friends, was the humbling part. After more than two decades helping other people's children, she was still struggling with her own.
She was a BCBA. She knew the research. But she was also a tired mom who had tried the nagging, negotiating, taking things away, and talking… and talking… and talking.
It might work for a day or two. Then they were right back in the same loop.
Until something clicked: she was trying to win the homework battle instead of understanding what was driving it. So she changed what she did first.
- She paused before reacting.
- She decoded what the behavior was communicating.
- Then she responded with intention instead of frustration.
The battles did not disappear overnight. But they got shorter. Then less frequent. And eventually, homework stopped feeling like a war.
That experience changed the way Shay looked at parenting, and it became the heart behind her Pause. Decode. Respond. method.
You know, sometimes even the parent who knows what to do needs a practical way to actually do it when emotions are high, time is short, and real life is happening.