Holly McLean

Holly McLean is the Mommy Answer Lady, a Certified Parent Educator with more than 40 years of experience helping parents understand children, behavior, and the challenges of raising a family. She is the author of How to Train Your Child to Behave: The Ultimate Guide to Transforming Your Child’s Behavior, which reflects her practical, straightforward approach to helping parents address difficult behaviors and establish healthy, effective patterns within the family. Throughout her more than four decades of experience, Holly has developed an approach that places particular emphasis on known aspects of human nature and behavior that apply to all children. While every child is an individual—with a unique personality, temperament, strengths, needs, and circumstances—Holly believes there are fundamental principles of human behavior that provide parents with an important foundation for understanding why children behave as they do and how parental responses can influence that behavior. In personal consultations, that foundation is combined with careful consideration of the individual child and the particular family situation. Holly considers the child’s personality, circumstances, patterns of behavior, family dynamics, and the specific challenges the parents are facing rather than assuming that one solution will work identically for every child. Her approach emphasizes parental leadership, consistency, appropriate expectations, healthy boundaries, and the importance of the parent-child relationship. Known for her common-sense and approachable style, Holly has a particular ability to take complicated parenting and behavior issues and make them easier to understand. As the Mommy Answer Lady, Holly combines decades of experience with professional parent-education training to help parents better understand both the universal principles that influence children’s behavior and the individuality of the child they are raising.