For more than forty years, she has been in the room
where it matters most — the family table.
LaBrita Andrews, Ed.M. is the creator of EVO 50™, a framework that helps parents recognize the emotional weight children were never meant to carry and understand how adult responses shape what children bring into school, peer relationships, and other areas of their lives.
She is also the creator of Team-Based Parenting™, the daily parenting practice within the EVO 50™ Framework.
Through the practice of Pause. Reflect. Respond., Team-Based Parenting™ helps parents and caregivers use everyday conversations to build critical thinking, autonomy, self-confidence, trust, and connection in children.
With more than 40 years of parenting experience, including 23 years as a stay-at-home mother, her understanding of family relationships was shaped at the family table first and later strengthened through academic study.
She holds an Ed.M. in Education Policy and Analysis from Harvard Graduate School of Education and is currently an Ed.D. doctoral student at Johns Hopkins School of Education.
What 40+ Years of Parenting Revealed
Parenting taught me many things, but one lesson took years to fully understand.
The way adults carry and express their emotions can shape a child’s world more than any rule, punishment, or lesson.
Over time, I began to recognize that children often absorb emotional weight that was never intended for them.
Stress, frustration, disappointment, worry, and unresolved emotions can quietly travel through everyday interactions, influencing how children see themselves, their relationships, and the world around them.
From the Table to the Framework.
Team-Based Parenting™ began as a daily parenting practice that shaped LaBrita’s family long before it became a framework.
The practice was refined through her studies at Harvard and her doctoral studies at Johns Hopkins, where the language and structure of the framework took shape.
What started at a family table now offers parents a way to recognize the emotional weight children carry.
EVO 50™ is the framework. Team-Based Parenting™ is the daily practice. Together, they meet parenting at the family table and in the small moments between.
This work was lived before it was taught.
LaBrita and her husband, Shang Andrews, raised five children in a home shaped by conversation, learning, and intentional growth.
The framework was shaped not only through academic study, but through decades of everyday family life, conversation, mistakes, growth, and learning.
That lived experience became the foundation for EVO 50™ and Team-Based Parenting™.
Team-Based Parenting™ didn’t just shape my childhood. It shaped my belief in myself.
I never had to find confidence, I was raised with it.
It was never our children’s role to manage our happiness or carry the emotional weight of the adults in the home.
That responsibility belonged to us.
