It all started with me buying Ja a car from a private seller who posted his car in the community group. A couple weeks later he inboxed me asking how much I would charge to teach him English. He is Brazilian. During one of our lessons, he told me he was a software engineer. 💥 And just like that, we became business partners… He is creating my social and emotional gamified app. I sketched out this super dope idea for schools last year but didn’t know where to even begin looking for a trusted app developer, so I just kept perfecting the idea. Message🗣️🗣️God is our endless supplier. Our job is to focus on the what it is that we desire and he will focus on the how🙌🏾 He always brings you who and what you need. My client/bp just showed me the prototype, and I’m super excited about it. He needs a couple more months to finish it, but Im about to start pitching to schools now. To all of my teacher friends 🗣️ you and your students are gonna love this🔥🔥💫 If you are an educator, school social worker, or school admin, let me know in the comments so I can add you to the waitlist to beta test the app!

The challenge continues. I’m learning so much about myself with this challenge. One, I need to get better with daily documentation. My plan was to document here each day which clearly I dropped the ball but I have been documenting my progress daily with a progress picture 🙌🏾 can’t wait to pop out and share. My biggest insight is that I do really well with a routine. Once I’m in the groove, I can do hard things. And so can you. What routine do you need to put in place to reach your goals? What routine do you need to help your children create so they can reach their goals?

Heyyy Healthy Hittas!! This Intro post is long overdue. *My Bad* Lol. I'm Deirdre, my fam and close friends call me Dee-Dee. I am a Mom of 4, Ages 21-5. Yeah, I know, Crazy, right! Lol. I am here mostly for my son Levi who is a Tween. He is 11 years old and in 6th Grade. Here's some context: He is almost 5'6 and wears a size 12 in men sneakers! I know, I know! WTH! Lol. Nasia has been such a strategic partner over the years when it comes to navigating these educational streets! Lol. Currently, we attend the weekly Book Club meetings and they have been invaluable. I am working on character building and building Levi's stamina when it comes to personal development and reading. I look forward to connecting with you all!

1. Your Name: What should we call you? 2. Your Role as a Parent: Are you a parent of tweens, teens, or both? 3. How old are your children? 4. What Brought You Here: What are you looking to learn or improve in your parenting journey? 5. Your Parenting Win: What’s one thing you’re proud of as a parent? 6. Fun Fact About You: What’s something unique, funny, or interesting about yourself? 7. Feel free to add anything else.

Welcome to The Parent S.P.O.T. where parents have the shared goal- to be HEALTHY, HEALED, AND HAPPY and raise emotionally healthy, healed, and happy children. The S.P.O.T stands for Strategies, Progress, Opportunities, Transformation. That is what this spot is about. Listen, we all know that parenting ain't for the faint of heart. If you are here, you have been a parent for a while now. You aren't new to this, you are true to this. But you may be new to being a middle school parent or a teen parent. That's when it gets real spicy 🔥🔥 People have different opinions, beliefs, and ideas. Keep the goal in mind. We want to evolve from what isn't serving us as parents. We want to level up in all areas, most importantly parenting. We want to break generational parenting curses. We want to minimize burn out while still being active parents. We want to raise emotionally healthy children who don't need to drop a bag on therapy to heal from their upbringing. We want to raise self-sufficient kids who make good choices and grow up to be successful and happy. We want...we want...we want... As parents of tween and teens, we know that we don't have that much time left before our influence will diminish. Our children will be off into the world soon. So we wonder: are we doing enough, teaching enough, modeling enough? Are we enough? Sometimes these things keep us up at night, so we seek and search for answers, for validation, for just a listening ear. The S.P.O.T is here for you...for us. But in order to chill at this spot, there are some rules of engagement. Please adhere to these rules, so this space can be all that (and a bag of chips 😂) and more for parents. (See rules below.) We hit the goals that we set out to achieve which is why we are called the "Healthy Hittas." I mean we could be called "Healthy, Healed and Happy Hittas" but that's way too long. How about "3H3 Hittas"? No? Okay, we'll stick to "Healthy Hittas". But just to let you know my education consulting business is called 3H3 which stands for Healthy, Healed, and Happy. Fun fact, 33 means master teacher, hence the name 3H3. Any way, let me stay focused...more on that later.