How Stress Travels from Home to School

Discover the research that inspired the EVO 50™ Framework.

This free research guide explores how stress can influence parent communication, how those patterns shape what children carry emotionally, and how greater awareness can lead to more intentional conversations. Grounded in the Family Stress Model and decades of peer-reviewed research, this guide introduces the pathway that inspired the EVO 50™ Framework and where parents have the greatest opportunity to make a difference.

Inside This Free Guide, You'll Discover:

• The four-stage pathway showing exactly how stress travels from family stressors to a child carrying emotional weight into school.
• The Family Stress Model (Conger & Elder, 1994; Masarik & Conger, 2017) explained in plain language, and why the pattern is interruptible.
• What "emotional weight" means, and how children absorb it without ever seeing the stress behind it.
• Where Team-Based Parenting™ and the Pause. Reflect. Respond.™ practice interrupt the pattern at its source.
• A full citation list of the peer-reviewed research behind the EVO 50™ Framework, for anyone who wants to go deeper.