What Parents Are Saying
The heart of my work is helping parents find more ease, connection, and confidence at home. I’m deeply grateful to the families who’ve shared their experiences. Here are a few reflections from parents who’ve taken part in coaching sessions and classes with me.
“I gained so much valuable insight to help with my parenting challenges. Lisa is very thorough and helped me think through tough questions and doubts I needed to overcome to make better choices as a parent. After working with Lisa, I feel a greater sense of confidence and have become more relaxed and playful as a parent. I face the everyday difficult situations with much more ease. I highly recommend Lisa's parenting classes and/or the individual sessions. I think we all feel overwhelmed and frustrated at times as a parent and it's so helpful to learn positive methods to move through these situations.” ~ Francoise
“As a single working mom, I thought I'd feel out of place in class. I was so wrong. Lisa created a safe container for everyone to learn and practice Positive Discipline. The class was a diverse group of singles, couples, married, divorced, all there to learn a better way to be with their children.
I particularly loved the way Lisa made the Positive Discipline curriculum come alive with participation and role plays. Without hesitation I highly recommend this class for all parents who are interested in having a loving relationship with their children.” ~Kristyn
There have been so many changes for the better since we started taking your class 8 weeks ago. the screaming and yelling in our house is now filled with laughter and smiles. Everyday, I tell my wife how proud I am about the way she handled a specific situation and I compare it to how we would have handled it before attending your class. We have a new story everyday and find ourselves constantly turning things into games or putting our children in the same boat. Thank you so much again for all that you have taught us. We are going to miss our Wednesday nights.
Eric
What surprised me about Lisa is that she's deep in the practice herself. I guess I expected (and at first hoped) I would get tips from a master—a Jedi Knight of Positive Parenting—who had all the answers I needed to keep my son from going to the Dark Side. But by the end of the 8 week course, I had such endearing respect for the "Mom" that she is—whose personal stories of success and failures added immeasurable value to her insightful coaching techniques. I'm mean really, is there any better teacher than a "loving mother"? Thank you Lisa!
Clay
I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT! It was exactly like the book and you said it would happen! Even though it worked so well, I admit I felt a bit guilty about seemingly abandoning Louie to her big brother in a moment of distress. But I get that their relationship benefitted from his problem-solving so much more than if I had stepped in.
Based on the book, if we can be consistent with this kind of conflict resolution, soon both kids will not feel this as abandonment, but as empowerment instead.
--Rachel
What I take away from Positive Discipline: insight and techniques on how to include our son in the resolution of conflicts and issues and how the family can work together to create a space of mutual respect and understanding. It was so very valuable to be reminded that all my child really wants is to know he belongs. Having new options to work with let me see what I could learn from my mistakes, so that this “oh, I could have handled that better, I kind of lost it there a bit” can become “now I see what works, what I can do next time and (most importantly) I’m not an awful parent or ruining my son by being human.” Positive Discipline is a tool that will aid us for years to come. Thank you Lisa! ~Sandra
Great class. Lisa has a wonderfully inviting, hospitable, trust-building and empowering presence and teaching style. She's engaged but not directive, an authority yet not authoritative, challenging yet not demeaning - and fun!
Monte
I am so grateful to lisa for her wonderful class. She has given me tools for parenting that have made such a difference. I really appreciated her kind and thoughtful approach to teaching, and the way she was never judgmental or shocked about anything shared in the safe environment that she created in the class. She helped all of us participants feel like we were on the same team, and showed us simple yet profound ways to relate to our children. Our home is much more peaceful since my husband and I took Lisa's class, and my children thank her too - well, they would if they knew she was the reason Mommy yells much less now. I highly recommend it! ~ Kristy
I would recommend this class to any parent who knows that there are better ways to interact with your kids, but just aren't sure what those ways are. If you go in with a willingness to learn, change, and apply the techniques over the long haul, I cannot recommend Lisa's Positive Discipline class enough. It could literally change your life.
Jared
