Parenting

Are you overwhelmed with parenting? Exhausted too often?

Are you dissatisfied with how you communicate with your kids?

Do you sometimes feel guilty about your discipline techniques?

Parenting may be the most difficult job that we have in our lives – and the most important responsibility. Yet we receive no formal training, no clear guidelines about the right way to parent.

I have helped hundreds of families, through parenting classes or through individualized parent coaching. There are proven effective techniques and tools that can help you do the best possible job of raising your kids and improve your confidence in your own parenting ability.

Some of the issues we work on and the tools you learn:

Parenting styles

• Exploring your style and creating a united front with your co-parent.

• Are you repeating the way you were parented? Doing the exact opposite?

Communicating with your children

• Healthy communication, validating feelings, I-statements, giving choices.

• The power of expectations, and how to state those clearly.

Setting limits and rules

• Deciding on limits appropriate for age, personality, and your own home.

• Communicating and enforcing those limits and rules.

Discipline and consequences

• Enforcing the rules consistently. Deciding and stating consequences.

• Effective time-outs. Managing your own anger and frustration.

Bedtime and mealtime problems

• Creating no-stress bedtime routines that really work.

• How to have peaceful, cooperative family mealtimes.

Helping your child succeed in school

• Homework issues, establishing positive routines.

• Helping with social adjustment and making friends.

Co-Parenting without conflict

• Difficult or painful situations with your ex-partner.

• Challenges in parenting teenagers and adolescents

Effective parenting coaching really can help you become the best parent you can possibly be as you guide your children to become responsible, happy, well-adjusted adults.