Parent Coaching
During our time together we look at your toughest challenges, I offer concrete tools and perspective shifts that support you to feel more confident and genuinely connected to your child and yourself.
My approach is customized to meet you were you are in this moment of your life. I don't believe in one-size-fits-all quick fixes when it comes to parenting. That said, many Positive Discipline strategies and tools that I recommend work like magic for parents who utilize them with love.
We're a great fit if:
You’re open to learning and change
You see you and your child as players on the same team
You believe in your potential to grow
You're ready to be challenged
We're not a great fit if:
You’re looking for a quick fix
You want me to tell you what to do
You want to mold your kids
You don’t believe change is possible for you
About Postive Discipline
People don’t use the word discipline these days but I like it because it’s from the Latin word discipulus "learner" and discere "learn” and our job as parents is to support our children in becoming learners.
5 criteria for effective discipline
Helps children feel a sense of connection. Belonging and significance.
Is mutually respectful and encouraging. Kind and firm at the same time.
Is effective long-term. Considers what the child is thinking, feeling, learning, and deciding about themself and their world – and what to do in the future to survive or to thrive.
Teaches important social and life skills. Respect, concern for others, problem solving, and cooperation as well as the skills to contribute to the home, school and larger community.
Invites children to discover how capable they are by encouraging the constructive use of personal power and autonomy.
The Positive Discipline model is aimed at teaching parents to employ kindness and firmness at the same time and is neither punitive nor permissive.
The tools of Positive Discipline include:
Mutual respect
Identifying the belief behind the behavior
Effective communication and problem solving skills
Discipline that teaches
Focusing on solutions instead of punishment
Encouragement
It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun.
All I can do is reach for it myself.
― Joyce Maynard