Coaching for Parents

Adapt your parenting to fit your child.
“Make sure your parenting keeps pace with your child’s development. You may wish you could slow down or freeze-frame your child’s life, but this is the last thing he wants. You may be fighting getting older, but all he wants is to grow up. The same drive for independence that is making your three-year-old say ‘no’ all the time is what’s motivating him to be toilet trained. The same intellectual growth spurt that is making your 13-year-old curious and inquisitive in the classroom also is making her argumentative at the dinner table.”

Parent Coaching

Take a deep breath, close your eyes (when you finish reading this sentence) and take a moment to imagine your dream version of your family; how you would act toward each other, what a typical day would be like, and how you would feel. Okay, done? What was that like? For many, parent coaching has turned this dream into reality. What was once only a wish, is now daily life for so many moms and dads who have committed themselves to their vision.
Contrary to popular belief, parent coaching is not for bad parents. The fact that you’d even consider parent coaching means you’re a good parent—you actually care about the well being of yourself and your family. And you’re not so bold as to think you are a perfect parent, which makes you an even better parent! See, you’re actually off to a great start

WHAT IS PARENTING COACHING?
Parenting coaching, first and foremost, is a relationship. The coach/client relationship enhances your ability to learn, make changes, and achieve desired goals. The coaching process leads you through a systematic framework that helps you to clarify your objectives, explore new options, make decisions and become accountable to act on your choices.

Often, coaching begins with choosing what areas you want to focus on in your family. Are you experiencing challenges with “temper tantrums,” sibling squabbling, defiant teenagers? Are you wanting more connection and fun with your kids, more ease in your daily interactions, or more respect? Focusing on your areas of concern, you use the coaching framework to set goals, create action items, and make commitments to change. Together with your coach, you brainstorm strategies, analyze what worked and what didn’t, celebrate successes and receive encouragement and support to move forward toward your goals.

Your parenting coach holds your vision for your family and keeps you connected to it, even when the going gets tough. Often your coach, as an outsider looking in, can provide an honest assessment and will challenge you to bring out the best in you. With your parenting coach at your side, you will have the support you need to reach your parenting potential and create the family life you desire.

What is Coaching?
When you hire a coach, you hire someone who works in partnership with you to help you achieve the life you want, both personally and professionally. A coach helps to clarify who you are, what you want, what's blocking you, and works with you to move you forward. Coaches help clients to come up with their own solutions and help to keep them motivated towards achieving great results. A coach is not a counselor in that the focus is not on the problem, but on the solution. Coaches also contribute their own expertise and knowledge around a variety of topics.

What is a Parenting Coach?
A parenting coach works with parents to help them become the parent they want to be. Many factors get in the way of us being an effective, wise and loving parent. Often our anger is out of control and relates to issues that are linked to our own childhood and actually have nothing to do with our children, yet too often they become our target. Often we're unfulfilled in our significant relationships and are dealing with unmet needs, abuse, an absent partner, or an uneven distribution of labour. Often despite feeling grateful for our children, our partners, our families and friends, we have a sense that something is missing from our lives. Trying to deal with any one of these factors prevents us from being the parent we really want to be.

As a parenting coach, I can coach you on any of these life issues or others, plus provide you with effective parenting tools that keep both your dignity and self-worth and your child's in tact.

What do we focus on in Parent Coaching?

Parents losing their cool

Kids who act out

Kids who are disrespectful

Angry or sad kids

Teaching kids to stay on task

Nurturing happiness & satisfaction

Sports performance

Whining, complaining, negative attitudes

Homework struggles

Bedtime battles

Sibling fights

Parent differences

Teaching chores & responsibilities

Habits of success

Getting kids up and off to school

Peer issues

Parental reactivity

Picky eating

Not listening

ADHD

And more!