I don’t know how to write this email without just saying it the way my wife said it to me, ”Sean, if you want to keep doing this work.

I don’t know how to write this email without just saying it the way my wife said it to me, ”Sean, if you want to keep doing this work. If you want to keep writing and teaching, you have to get paid to do it.”

But for a guy who was a volunteer teacher for three years, who was a stay at home dad. For a guy who bought his own expo markers, ate school lunch and says yes every time someone says, “Can you help me with this?”.

Writing this email is the hardest part.

I built a course. It’s called Autopilot. Enrollment opens October 7, 2026. It’s $297.

On it’s face, it’s an Executive Function course, but at it’s heart it’s about proving to our kids that they’re capable, that they matter in our homes, and allowing parents to be felt and heard without yelling.

Why I built it

Some of my most popular videos expressed something that every parent has felt - when the daily demands of running our homes meets our middle schoolers there’s often an explosion. We ask them to be ready on time, we ask them to pick up shoes, we ask them to finish homework and ends with us yelling at each other.

Parents tighten the screws, kids refuse, and the laundry basket becomes a source of relational rupture. We have lengthy negotiations and conversations, we try to connect and recover, but very little changes without us threatening consequences.

For parents, this is burnout. We want to be emotionally responsive, but we also have a lot of demand. We overfunction, we lose connection to our kid.

For kids, this is a threat to their autonomy and identity. They are at a pivotal stage of their development that is hyperfocused on independence, self-efficacy, and belonging at the same time without the proper skills to support that desire.

Those skills are the executive functions- the ability of a human to be self-directed and goal-directed.

I believe that if parents can learn about their developmental needs, how executive function actually works, and design tools towards their development, we will be increase a child’s efficacy and autonomy, reduce burnout and rupture, and connection will have space.

How I built it

Managing the emotions of 25, 12 year old kids well enough to get them to do things they don’t want to do was my job for a long time. It was partially connection, but it was mostly engagement and efficacy. When kids knew what to do, when to do it, how to do it they felt capable. Capable adolescents are autonomous adolescents because they will work to protect the dignity inherent independence and efficacy.

The path there went through structure. I built systems, and routines that kids could master, to facilitate emotional control through mastery.

But that required me to see their needs, and design tools that meet those needs.

I want to bring that lens of educational design to parents. To see the needs of their children, design tools that help them master those skills.

What I built:

5 Core Lessons: The curricular Core Lesson 1: What is going on in my child’s development? What is executive functioning? Lesson 2: How do I actually see the needs of my kid and the needs of my home? Lesson 3: How do we design scaffolding that supports those needs? Lesson 4: How do we collaborate with our kids to do this effectively? Lesson 5: How do I step back to allow them to step forward? 9 Supporting Podcasts: 25 mins 5 episodes: Diving deeper into the complexity of each lesson 4 episodes on managing HOW we navigate: the pushback, the struggle 5 Office Hour Sessions Each lesson will come with supporting office hours for parents to ask questions, troubleshoot their understanding and apply what they’ve learned One comprehensive Case study A fictional family that reflects our real struggles and implements the work across the lessons 6 Plug and Play Structures 6 instantly accessible structured interventions that meet our most common needs- Mornings, Chores, After School, Homework, Planning ahead, Evening Winddown. Worksheets and scripts that bring kids to the table and create quick collaboration and traction.

The parents I’ve served with my content, my writing and my message are not afraid of change or challenge. We are deeply committed to curiosity, growth and the connection with our children, but we’re also certain that there are better ways to create that capacity that don’t require overfunctioning and burnout.