Wild Goose Chase Parenting Meta-Tool

A game/exercise/technique meta-tool of MAGIC QUESTIONS (a meta-tool is a parenting technique that helps across many different areas, and in many different situations)

A storytelling-conversation-hypnosis hybrid that is:

Connective (creates connection and rapport, keeps adults and children present and engaged)

Corrective (helps to interrupt undesired patterns such as behavior that needs redirecting and emotions that need disassociating)

Rhizomatic (non-linear, non-sensical, creative, fun, unspooling, can go a million different ways, never the same twice)

Suggestive (use to install and reinforce self-beliefs such as resiliency, confidence, and other resource states in kiddos)

Imaginative (helps foster several critical areas of cognitive function, including imagination and focus)

Interesting (novel, engaging, easy to play anywhere - road trips, car rides, restaurants, waiting in line)

Relational (strengthens parent-child relationships, creates an alternative conversation and connection format, creates new neural connections as well in the brain)

Benefits:

Vehicle for conscious conditioning (creating GOOD patterns for your kids - core beliefs about themselves and about life, better habits, behavior “re-writes”)

Pattern interrupting (when the pattern is undesired, eg, behavior that is problematic, an emotional state that has gotten “locked” like an on-going tantrum, even a fixation on a wound/source of physical pain)

Dopamine flowing (a game that has a lot of novelty, novelty creates dopamine flow, dopamine flow creates engagement)

Rapport building (a great way to connect and BE PRESENT with kids!) 

Brain strengthening (promotes problem solving, neural connectivity, reciprocal hemispheric utilization, and focus)

Conversation creating (creates dependable conversational structure and flow with unpredictable and novel content)

A micro-taste of the meta-tool:

What has to happen to a ______ for it to change? 

What else is/has  ______?

What happens when _______?

What else do you notice about ________?