Learn how working with a parenting coach can help you establish healthy screen time habits for your children. Discover strategies based on your child's unique personality and learning style to foster balance, manage device use, and create engaging alternatives to screen time.
Read MoreParenting coaching can help you adjust your approach to raising teens, providing tools to foster stronger relationships and reduce conflicts. Learn how to shift communication styles, practice active listening, and give your teens the independence they need while maintaining guidance. Get expert advice on balancing boundaries and freedom for a smoother transition through the teen years.
Read MoreLots of parenting coaches, like me, come from the world of education. That means we bring our classroom experiences and teacher perspective to our parenting coaching.
Here are some things that both as a parenting coach and as a former educator, I’d like parents to focus on.
Read MoreThese days, parenting is a lonely business. We can no longer depend on our family and friends to guides us through the sticky parts of a particular age or stage with our children. That’s why, today, we have parenting coaches.
Here’s how parenting coaching addresses some common parenting challenges.
Read MoreUsing a parent coach to manage child behaviors makes more sense than you might think.
First, parenting is a skill; it is not innate.
Many parents hesitate to get help because they feel that a good parent should just know instinctively how to help and guide their child.
These parents do not realize that historically parenting knowledge has been handed down from generation to generation by the wise counsel of the village—by parents, grandparents, religious leaders in the olden days and more recently by teachers, coaches and even librarians.
Read MoreDiscover how parenting coaching can help new parents navigate the critical early years. Learn strategies for effective communication, creating a family vision, handling conflict, and understanding key developmental stages. Set your family up for success with expert guidance and practical tools from a seasoned parenting coach.
Read MoreParent Coaching can be a priceless tool in helping you translate your understanding of parenting concepts like Positive Discipline into action. A Parent Coach can provide multiple, real-life examples of what to say, when to say it and how to say it to create the best possible bond between you and your children, so peace, calm, harmony, mutual respect and cooperation reign in your household.
Read MoreDiscover how parenting coaching can help foster independence in children by guiding parents to strike the right balance between support and freedom. Learn strategies to empower your kids to become self-reliant and confident individuals, helping them thrive in life.
Read MoreStruggling with conflicting parenting styles in your home? Discover how a parenting coach can help you and your partner find common ground, reduce stress, and create a harmonious environment for your children. Learn about the benefits of tailored strategies that respect both parents' perspectives and meet your child’s unique needs.
Read MoreParenting coaching has become essential as modern parents face challenges of isolation and lack of hands-on experience with children. Discover how coaching fills the gap left by disappearing extended families and communities, offering support and strategies for confident parenting. Learn why today’s parents need a coach more than ever.
Read MoreFighting among your kids can ruin any chance of peace and harmony in your home and, more importantly, it can ruin your relationship with your kids.
Parenting coaching can support you in creating the happy, healthy relationships among with each other that will serve your kids now and well beyond your lifetime.
Read MoreMiddle school is a time of intense growth. Your child is forming their identity and can be more influenced by peers than ever before. Friendships become complex, intense, and sometimes confusing. Social hierarchies and cliques emerge, along with the overwhelming pressure to fit in. And short-lived friendships can lead to feelings of uncertainty and instability.
Read MoreMany of my clients first came to the United States as adults, sometimes for graduate school, but often for a job. Some of them brought their young children with them; some had their children in the United States.
But here’s the truth: If your child enters preschool or Kindergarten in the United States, you are raising an American. At the very least a hybrid child.
It is only natural, that you will have some cultural crashes with your children.
Read MoreGetting out the door with little kids can be quite an adventure! Here are 10 tips to help make the process smoother and less stressful.
Read MoreYou would think that as a middle school teacher, I would have been telling parents to make sure they help their children get homework done. You would think I would have them prioritize that over getting to bed on time or over a family outing.
No.
My advice to parents is to always put your relationship with your child first.
I say that because there is nothing more precious.
Read MoreHow to navigate having your young adult children live with you after they have been away and established their own routines and schedules. You can still foster a healthy relationship by setting expectations while still letting them be an adult and not the little kid who gets told what to do all the time.
Read More“I adore my husband, but I hate parenting with him. I feel like I can handle the kids alone, but he comes in and mixes it all up." Seriously, when parents contact me, conflict with one's spouse about how he or she parents is always some part of what is keeping their household from being as fully calm and harmonious as they want it to be. That means that one of my biggest roles as a parenting coach is to help parents get on the same page.
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Read MoreDo you struggle to help your kids find balance with their screen times? Today’s guest blogger outlines some ways to be in conversation with your kids about their use of electronics.
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