Dr. Frances Malone, PNP, PhD · Intuitive Parenting

Before the evaluation.
Before the referral.
Before anyone gets labeled.

Behavior & Attention: What to Try Before the System Takes Over. A clinical first-step framework for parents of children kindergarten through preteen.

$244 · Self-paced · Available immediately · Includes supplemental recording

Enroll Now — $244 What's Inside
Dr. Frances Malone
CredentialsPhD · Biobehavioral Nursing · UW
ResearchNIH-Funded · Published Scientist
ClinicalPICU · Pediatric Transplant · SCH
Practice25 Years Infant & Child Health
The Clinical Argument

"If a child's behavior shifts significantly with parenting adjustments, sleep, and food — then what exactly are we diagnosing?"

This is not a rhetorical question. It is the question I ask in every clinical encounter. A diagnosis names a pattern. It does not explain why that pattern is happening in this specific child in this specific family system.

I am not anti-diagnosis. I am not anti-medication. I have an issue with the order of operations — employing those tools before the available environmental interventions have been tried. In my clinical experience, the order matters. And the standard of care gets it wrong more often than not.

This course gives you those interventions. In sequence. In plain language. Without ideology.

Who This Is For

You are starting
to hear things.
This is where you begin.

You are starting to hear comments from teachers or other adults about your child's behavior, attention, or emotional regulation.

You sense something is off. You are not ready for the evaluation track — or you want to know what to try first before you go there.

You have tried reward charts. You have tried consequences. You have tried reasoning with a child who cannot yet be reasoned with in the moment.

No one has told you about the variables that actually move the needle first. This course does.

For many families, the framework in this course is sufficient. For the rest — it is the foundation that makes every subsequent intervention more effective.

Dr. Frances Malone
Doctorate PhD, Biobehavioral Nursing & Basic Science · University of Washington
Post-Doctoral Fellow Biobehavioral Nursing · NIH/NINR Training Grant · UW
Clinician Pediatric Nurse Practitioner · 25 years in infant and child health
Researcher NIH-funded · Clinical trials · Stress physiology
Practice Malone Pediatrics · Founder · Thousands of families
What's Inside

Four modules.
One sequence that is entirely within your reach.

01
Before Anyone Gets Labeled: A Different Starting Place
The clinical stance, stated plainly. Who this is for. What is actually possible when the right variables are addressed in the right order. The reframe that makes the rest of the course land.
02
Start with Yourself: The Variable That Changes Everything
School behavior does not begin at school. It begins in the nervous system your child wakes up inside every morning — which is in conversation with yours. This module covers the ZEN framework as it applies to older children, the positive attention ratio (the single most impactful variable most parents have never been told about), and the secure base — what only you can provide that makes every other intervention work better.
03
Sleep and Schedule: The Foundation Almost Everyone Skips
The nervous system of a child runs on predictability. When the sequence of events is unpredictable, the nervous system stays in low-grade alert — and that state presents as inattention, impulsivity, and emotional reactivity. It is not a disorder. It is a correctly functioning nervous system in the wrong environment. Sleep targets by age, the morning as a clinical intervention, how to build a predictable sequence without rigidity.
04
Food, and When to Go Further
The fastest-responding variable in the behavioral picture — and the most consistently underestimated. Protein and blood sugar stability. What to minimize and why. What parents notice within one to two weeks when these shifts are made consistently. The clear-eyed framework for knowing when the situation needs a more individualized clinical eye.
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Supplemental Recording
An audio track designed for the parent — not the child. For the end of a hard day, the morning before the house wakes up, whenever the load feels like too much.
What You Walk Away With

The framework I use
with every family.

A clinical framework in plain language — four variables, addressed in order, that produce measurable results in most families within four to six weeks.
The confidence to try before the system takes over — and the clinical understanding to know what non-response tells you.
Practical tools you can implement immediately. Tomorrow morning. With breakfast.
A map of what comes next if you need it — and what a 1:1 clinical consult actually produces.
Start with yourself. Add structure and sleep. Shift the food. Then evaluate what remains.
About Dr. Frances

I know what it costs
when the right interventions are delayed.

Twenty-five years of pediatric clinical practice. A PhD in biobehavioral nursing from the University of Washington. NIH-funded research. Thousands of families. A deep and specific understanding of what it costs a child when the right interventions are delayed — and what becomes possible when they are not.

I am not anti-diagnosis. I am not anti-medication. I am a clinician who has watched the order of operations matter, consistently, across two and a half decades of practice.

And I built this course because the framework I use in every clinical encounter should not be gatekept behind a $1,200 consult.

I learned this on the floor. More than once. In more than one season.

There were moments with my boys — toddler years, early school years — when I could feel myself beginning to spiral. When the noise or the conflict or the sheer relentlessness of it was pulling me somewhere I didn't want to go. I learned to put myself in timeout. Literally. I would excuse myself, go to the bathroom, sit on the floor, and do what I now teach: feel my body, clear it, come back.

Sometimes I didn't make it to the bathroom in time. Sometimes I became what my boys and I came to call Scary Mama — and they knew that name because I gave it to them. I named my own behavior so they could see that I recognized its impact. That I wasn't pretending it hadn't happened. That the adult in the room was also learning.

Some of the most important moments in our relationship happened on the floor — all of us, together, after things had gotten to be too much. The tears, the holding, the coming back to each other. Me telling them it is not okay for me to yell, that I am still learning how to let people know what I need, that it takes practice. A lot of practice.

This is not a framework I developed and then stood above. It is something I live. The same tools I give you are the ones I still reach for.

Start here. See what moves. Then we go from there.

Dr. Frances Malone
Investment

$244

Four modules of 10–15 minutes each, recorded via Loom screen-share with slides. Available immediately. Work through it at your own pace, in the order that serves you. Includes supplemental audio recording.

This is not a parenting book. It is not a wellness program. It is a clinical framework from a PhD-trained pediatric nurse practitioner who has sat with thousands of families navigating exactly this — and who knows what moves first.

Enroll Now — $244

Questions? DrFrances@intuitive-parenting.org

"This is not something you learn and then implement. Some days you do well. Some days you do not. Having the grace to apologize to those caught in your learning trajectory — and to try again in each of the unfolding moments of your life — is true courage."

That is the Practice.

"Children don't need you to be perfect. Just present."

— Dr. Frances Malone, PNP, PhD