








For some of you, it's:
Daily power struggles that drain every ounce of energy you have
Constant arguing and defiance over everything
Feeling like you're failing as a parent
Exhaustion from battles that never end
For others, it's more severe:
Violence and property destruction
School suspensions, expulsions, or police involvement
Arrests, hospitalizations, or CPS investigations
Talk of residential treatment
Wherever you are on this spectrum, you're in the right place.
Because whether you caught it early or whether you're deep in crisis, these same principles work.
You can't tell anyone the truth.
Not your friends. Not your family. Definitely not the other parents at school who already whisper about your child.
Because when you say "my child has ODD," people think you mean:
🤦🏻♀️ Won't do homework
🙄 Talks back sometimes
🤯 Has an attitude
Therapy? The waitlist was 6 months, and when you finally got in, nothing changed.
Medication? Multiple tries, multiple side effects, minimal results.
Behavior charts? Your child laughed and ripped them up.
Gentle parenting? They walked all over you.
Tough love? Made the defiance worse.
✅ You've tried multiple therapists, medications, and specialists for years with minimal lasting results
✅ Your child's behavior ranges from daily defiance to severe crisis — or anywhere in between
✅ You've been told your child has ODD, ADHD, DMDD, or conduct disorder
✅ Other programs and approaches have failed — gentle parenting, tough love, behavior modification, all of it
✅ You're worried about what the future holds if nothing changes
✅ You feel in your heart there HAS to be another way — and everyone keeps telling you the same failed solutions.
I caught my situation early by trusting my instincts and discovering Thomas just in time.
But we work with families at every level of severity — from those just starting to struggle to those in full crisis with violence, arrests, and systems involvement.
These principles work because they address the root cause, not just the symptoms.



Your child's window for developing emotional regulation is closing. The patterns you're creating now—good or bad—will follow them into adolescence and adulthood.
*A 10-year-old who can't control their rage
becomes a teenager who can't keep friends.*
*A 12-year-old who destroys property becomes an adult
who can't keep a job or stay out of legal trouble.*
Do you have six months to waste on strategies that don't work?
Do you have six more years?
Or are you ready to try something that actually develops them from the inside out?

📊 2,000+ children guided through Thomas's Creating Champions for Life program
🏆 Hall of Fame recognition for most creative after-school program (2004)
👨👩👧👦 300+ families transformed from chaos to cooperation
⭐ 5 star Amazon reviews
📚 #1 New Release on Amazon for parenting ADHD and ODD kids
✅ First martial arts school licensed as a daycare for children with behavioral disorders

📊 2,000+ children guided through Thomas's Creating Champions for Life program
🏆 Hall of Fame recognition for most creative after-school program (2004)
👨👩👧👦 300+ families transformed from chaos to cooperation
⭐ 5 star Amazon reviews
📚 #1 New Release on Amazon for parenting ADHD and ODD kids
✅ First martial arts school licensed as a daycare for children with behavioral disorders

I was a single mom of four children diagnosed with ADHD, ODD, anxiety and depression.
And I was drowning.
Every day was a battlefield. Power struggles over everything. Meltdowns that lasted hours. Defiance that made me question everything about myself as a mother.
The doctors wanted to put my kids on medication.
The therapists had their waitlists ready.
Everyone had the same answer: medicate, manage, control.
But something in my heart said there had to be another way.
I couldn't shake the feeling that my children weren't broken. That they didn't need to be "fixed" or controlled. That there was something everyone was missing.
I went to bed every night wondering:
🤦🏻♀️ Is this my fault?
😩 Will my kids be okay?
🤯 Can I survive years more of this?
🥲 What if I'm failing them?
Then in 2011, I met Thomas — and everything changed.
Thomas is a 4th-degree black belt and Hall of Fame inductee who'd spent decades working with thousands of children — including kids who'd been kicked out of everywhere else for violent, explosive behavior.
The kids everyone else gave up on.
Thomas is a 4th-degree black belt and Hall of Fame inductee who'd spent decades working with thousands of children — including kids who'd been kicked out of everywhere else for violent, explosive behavior.
The kids everyone else gave up on.


Bonnie & Thomas Liotta with Bonnie's 4 kids 2014 —
Jacob (age 14), Jennie (age 10), Kyra (age 12), Zac (age 7)
I was a single mom of four children diagnosed with ADHD, ODD, anxiety and depression.
And I was drowning.
Every day was a battlefield. Power struggles over everything. Meltdowns that lasted hours. Defiance that made me question everything about myself as a mother.
The doctors wanted to put my kids on medication.
The therapists had their waitlists ready.
Everyone had the same answer: medicate, manage, control.
But something in my heart said there had to be another way.
I couldn't shake the feeling that my children weren't broken. That they didn't need to be "fixed" or controlled. That there was something everyone was missing.
I went to bed every night wondering:
🤦🏻♀️ Is this my fault?
😩 Will my kids be okay?
🤯 Can I survive years more of this?
🥲 What if I'm failing them?
Then in 2011, I met Thomas — and everything changed.
Thomas is a 4th-degree black belt and Hall of Fame inductee who'd spent decades working with thousands of children — including kids who'd been kicked out of everywhere else for violent, explosive behavior.
The kids everyone else gave up on.
Thomas is a 4th-degree black belt and Hall of Fame inductee who'd spent decades working with thousands of children — including kids who'd been kicked out of everywhere else for violent, explosive behavior.
The kids everyone else gave up on.


Bonnie & Thomas Liotta with Bonnie's 4 kids 2014 —
Jacob (age 14), Jennie (age 10), Kyra (age 12), Zac (age 7)
He showed me what I'd felt in my heart all along:
Children don't need to be controlled. They need to be DEVELOPED.
Not managed. Not medicated into compliance. Not controlled through punishment.
Developed through proactive life skills training that teaches them to master themselves.
When I saw Thomas interact with MY children — the same kids who'd worn me down to nothing — something miraculous happened:
😁 They listened.
☺️ They cooperated.
😌 They calmed down.
🤩 They actually THRIVED. Not because he controlled them.
Because he developed their ability to master themselves.
I was stunned. Could this really work for us long-term?

I committed to learning Thomas' methods.
For six months, I practiced the 12 principles every single day — even when I was exhausted, even when others questioned me, even when the doctors kept suggesting medication. Heck, I had to parent anyway. Why not practice every single day?
And suddenly, everything changed.
The power struggles stopped.
The defiance ended.
My children became cooperative, confident, and happy.
My home went from chaos to peace — without medication, without endless therapy, without controlling them.
Because I trusted my instincts and found another way.
The transformation was so profound, I knew every struggling parent needed this.
Here's what I've learned since founding Creating Champions For Life:
Not every parent is as fortunate as I was to find this early.
Many of the 300+ families we've helped came to us after:
😒 Years of failed therapy
😡 Multiple medications that didn't work
🤬 Violence and property destruction
🥵 School expulsions or arrests
😱CPS involvement
😬 Residential treatment discussions
And even in those extreme cases — after years of conventional approaches failed them — these principles still work.
Because they address what everyone else misses: developing the child from the inside out.
Thomas and I married in 2013, and together we built Creating Champions For Life to help parents who, like me, feel in their hearts there has to be another way.
Whether you're at the beginning of this journey or you've been fighting for years — whether your child's behavior is mild defiance or severe crisis — these principles work.
If you feel in your heart there has to be another way, you're right.
Let me show you what it is.
— Bonnie Liotta
"My 11-year-old son had been on medication for years. Nothing was working. What happened after we started CCFL shocked me."
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"I'm a law firm owner. Pregnant with my third child, already overwhelmed by my two little ones. I didn't think I had time for another parenting program... I was wrong."
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Constant lying. Disrespect. Emotional outbursts every single day. I was losing my son...
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Constant lying. Disrespect. Emotional outbursts every single day. I was losing my son...until we discovered this approach."
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