Our Gremlin Taming for Kids section is under development so be sure to check back often and send any youngsters you know to help us test the features as we develop them. My goal is to have gremlin-taming be just like any other verb in the vocabulary of children so that they will grow up in a world where knowing the difference between their own inner voice from that of their gremlin's will be as simple as throwing a baseball.

Please help me make this dream a reality by learning the method yourself and introducing it to a child, or simply pointing that child back here and letting them have fun with creating their gremlin, learning how to belly breathe or making gremlin bait. Either way, spread the word. Gremlin Taming is contagious once you get the hang of it. It's the difference between a good life and a great life and who doesn't want a great life?

About Jane

If you ran a single thread through Jane's career as a social worker and professional coach, one common strand would be her passion for bringing out the best in people. That's why, after working 18 years in medical centers and mental health practices as a clinical social worker, she enthusiastically grabbed onto the young profession of coaching and created an active practice specializing in adults with Attention Deficit Disorder, entrepreneurs, musicians, and coaches in training. For Jane, professional coaching coupled with her background in social work was a natural fit. Then she discovered Taming Your Gremlin and the picture was completed. Rick's work offered Jane a specific method to help guide people in gaining control over their awareness, a tool that is tremendously helpful for anyone who struggles with issues of attention. Jane's passion for gremlin-taming has grown from her own personal practice of the Gremlin Taming Method. Having experienced just how powerful it was in her own life, she played with introducing it to her sons who have now become two of our youngest and best little gremlin tamers in their own right! It was from Jane's experience with her sons that Gremlin Taming for Kids™ was created.

Jane became the Director of The Gremlin Taming Institute in October 2002 after ending over a decade of work as an independent contractor at the Amen Clinics for Behavioral Medicine in Fairfield, California. She maintains an active practice coaching adults with Attention Deficit Disorder as well as giving private lessons in gremlin taming to parents. She has developed a unique style of inspiring her clients to action, stemming from their own gremlin-taming experiences. Jane also introduces gremlin-taming in K-12 classrooms and teaches parents through teleclasses and presentations how to use this method with their children. You'll find her assisting Rick in workshops and training programs as well as coordinating with various professional groups to provide training opportunities. She is the host of the monthly "Ask the Gremlin Tamer" teleclass and last, but definitely not least, is working on a parent guide book with Rick.

"Jane is a gift to all of us, and gifted. It thrills my soul that she has embraced the Gremlin-Taming Method like she has. And I guarantee you she has learned it from the inside out – through courageous self-scrutiny inspired by her unbounded commitment to her own growth and to giving her clients her all. She wants us all to be the best we can be.

Jane has the patience of a saint and will slog with you through a swamp if that's what's required to help you free up and get where you're going.

She has a wealth of experience with children and their parents and with adults and kids with Attention Deficit Disorder, but because her talent lies in her ability to work with people, not labels – regardless of your age, concepts about yourself or world-view -- your time spent with Jane will be time very well spent." --Rick Carson

Jane resides in Danville, California with her husband and two sons. She can be reached at the Gremlin Taming Institute at 1-800-253-9269 or via email at jane@tamingyourgremlin.com.

Hi! I’m Jane Massengill, Director of the Gremlin Taming Institute. Thanks for stopping by to visit us here on our ever changing website. By your being here right now, it must mean that you are curious about gremlins, either your own, your kid’s, your client’s or simply about gremlins in general, although you can never really generalize a gremlin! That’s what makes them so mischievous!

We’ve designed our website so that you’ll be educated as well as entertained. There are opportunities here to skim the surface or to go several layers deeper when it comes to your own personal process in gremlin taming™. Some of my favorites are the Gremlin Gallery where you can send us a picture of your gremlin to be displayed along side some of Novle Rogers’ illustrations. And there is Rick’s video clip “On Gremlins” where you’ll learn even more about those imaginary monsters under the bed.