You're listening to 3 in 30 takeaways for moms episode 180.

Three secrets to helping your kids behave well.

Welcome to 3 in 30, a podcast for moms who want to create more meaning in motherhood.

Each 30-minute episode will feature three doable takeaways for you to try at home with your family this week.

I'm your host Rachel Nielsen. Thank you so much for being here.

In her home in Austin, Texas, today's guest Ralphie Jacobs has a big wooden sign that hangs in the kitchen for all to see.

The sign says, when you focus on the good, the good gets better.

This motto is at the heart of the way that Ralphie tries to parent her four daughters,

as well as at the heart of the work that she does to teach hundreds of thousands of parents around the world about positive parenting,

about looking for the good in their kids so that the good can get better.

Ralphie is the founder of Simply On Purpose, which started as an Instagram account that grew and grew and grew as parents all over the world

were touched by the positive discipline and connection methods that Ralphie was teaching.

From there, Ralphie began teaching sold out workshops around the country about positive parenting,

and then she created an audio course for families who couldn't travel to one of her workshops or who wanted to dive in deeper.

Ralphie has been on 3 and 30 twice before, and I invited her to come back for a special episode this week,

which is the week of Mother's Day in the United States, because I wanted to get the word out that her audio courses are on sale this week only

for parents who are ready to invest in creating a more positive home environment for their children.

You're going to get a taste of the principles taught in Ralphie's course today, and if you decided something that you'd like to learn more about,

I truly can't recommend her audio courses highly enough.

Ralphie's emphasis on looking for the good is also so incredibly aligned with the journal that I created for mothers, which is called Flex of Gold.

In this journal, you write down one golden moment that you experience with your kids each day, and a mom of two in Indiana said it best when she explained,

quote, when I started using the Flex of Gold journal, there were days when I felt like I had to really sit and think about something,

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