Navigating the Complexity of Being a Parent
Did you ever find yourself wondering why your child was not sent home with a parenting manual for you at birth? Navigating the mysteriously complex maze called parenthood can be tough. It is crazy to think about all you have to go through just to get a driver’s license, a job, or a home. Yet, there are no requirements to prepare you to bring a child into this world. I don’t know about you, but before I had kids, I thought that parenting would come naturally — that I would have it down, no problem. Um … not exactly!
In today’s technologically advanced world, we can Google just about anything, including effective parenting strategies. The problem with this, however, is that when you begin researching (as you may have already discovered) you quickly find lots of conflicting advice, prescriptive “formulas,” and parenting techniques that are supposed to “cure” the current challenges that you are having with your child.
But how do you know which technique to try, or what advice to listen to? How are you supposed to do all of this while you are in an urgent struggle with your child and need parenting help now? The simple answer is, it’s nearly impossible to do this. That’s why working with a coach is such a powerful step to take to address the challenges in your family.
As a PCI Certified Parent Coach® and educator with years of experience working with parents and their foster, adopted, and biological children, I’d love to help you. I take a unique approach to parent coaching that understands that it is a dynamic, collaborative process between the parent and the coach.
The parent coaching program I have designed helps parents to begin to understand themselves and their relationship with their children on a much deeper, clearer level. By leveraging conscious parenting and kindness principles, I help parents end battles that we often have with our children around such things as homework, bedtime, chores, screen time, and other power struggles and challenging situations. My parent coaching process will help you learn more about kindness and discipline. It will dial in your parenting, health, career, relationships, time management, and more to reduce your stress.
Ultimately, my goal is to help you find balance, peace, joy, and satisfaction in your role as a parent. My unique parenting tips and strategies can help you to support your toddler through their tantrums without having a tantrum yourself, to relate better to your teen and with more joy, and to help your anxious child feel comfortable and confident, no matter their age.
During our sessions together, we will dig deep into the parent coaching elements here in a customized order that makes sense for you and your situation to help you connect deeper and get along better with your child — creating a more harmonious home and family.
There are also times when I work with the children as well. Bringing in my experience as a family therapist, sometimes it is helpful to work with the child alone or the child and the parent(s) together. All of these options are available, based on what is best for each individual family.