The Guided Journal for Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors

ebook / ISBN-13: 9781805018209

Price: £14.99

ON SALE: 21st September 2026

Genre: Adoption & Fostering / Advice On Parenting / Psychology

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It is time to put understanding into practice. Building on principles in Robyn Gobbel’s bestselling book Raising Kids with Big Baffling Behaviors, this guided journal invites parents and carers to dive into hands-on exercises, reflective prompts, and everyday tools that make big behaviors feel far less baffling.

Creating space for you to be curious and providing you with actionable steps introduced through playful activities and gentle guidance, this journal helps you understand what your child really needs- and how to meet those needs with confidence and compassion.

Whether you’re building on understandings from the original book or you’re simply craving more clarity, this journal turns insight into action, helping you find regulation, compassion and hope in the moments that matter most.

Reviews

A comprehensive, compassionate book for anyone whose parenting journey hasn't gone as expected. Robyn balances warmth with practical, achievable guidance-holding space for both child and adult. A book you'll return to again and again.
Eliza Fricker, illustrator and author of Can't Not Won't
Compassionate, practical, and refreshingly human. Robyn translates complex brain science into accessible strategies and meaningful insight. Her framework of playfulness as 'the vulnerability of delight' reminds parents that healing doesn't require perfection-it begins with curiosity and a willingness to learn alongside their children.
Jacqueline Scherer, LMSW, RPT™ Executive Director/Founder THE PLAYGROUND, Foster & Adoptive Parent, 2025 Michigan Play Therapist of the Year
Gobbel does it again!! Her spectacular new guide unveils a treasure trove of heart-healing reflections and exercises-balancing warmth with wisdom, sensitivity with neuroscience, humility with humor. Her comforting, signature style will reassure any stressed human: yes, we can do this.
Kendra Morris-Jacobson, MA, Oregon Post Adoption Resource Center, Director of Oregon Program
If you've ever finished a parenting book wondering, 'How do I translate this to real life?'-this is the answer. Robyn helps you integrate these concepts into how you think, feel, and respond, one page at a time.
Eileen Devine, LCSW Founder, Brain First Parenting
Parents, grandparents, aunties, teachers-run toward this book, pencil and crayons in hand. You'll find a guide who will settle and gentle the process of raising kids in tough circumstances.
Bonnie Badenoch, PhD, author of The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
This guided journal beautifully brings Robyn's neuroscience and wisdom to life, helping caregivers translate insight into action. Through thoughtful reflection, readers will deepen connection, strengthen relationships, and create meaningful opportunities for healing and growth for the whole family.
Barb Clark, FASD/Behavior Consultant and author of Raising Kids and Teens with FASD
This guided journal is an operating manual for the nervous system-and yet it does something even more remarkable than explain nervous system science. It embodies it. As you move through these pages, you experience the very safety, scaffolding, and attunement that Robyn is teaching you to offer your child.
Dr Laura Markham, clinical psychologist and internationally recognized parenting expert
This guided journal takes the life-changing concepts from Raising Kids with Big Baffling Behaviors and moves them from understanding into practice. It doesn't just teach a new way of thinking-it cultivates a new way of seeing ourselves and the children we love."
Matt Darrah, adopted father, adoptee, & Executive Director of Panhandle Orphan Care Network
This is the kind of book you want to put in everybody's bag. It makes space for grown-ups' feelings-fatigue, overwhelm, stress-without ever compromising on advocating for children. It's accessible, realistic, practical, non-judgmental. And it rewires the voice inside your head.
Kelsie “Mick” Olds, OTR The Occupational Therapist
Yes, yes, yes!! Robyn has created a space for adults to learn, think, reflect, and grow-not just as caregivers, but as humans who need safety and support themselves. This journal helps you heal, understand yourself, and support your own nervous system."
Stephanie Grant, PhD, LPC, IMH-E®, owner of Connected Development