Parent Coaching
My parent coaching practice is dedicated to supporting and empowering parents in strengthening their relationship with their child through personalized guidance and practical strategies.
I work collaboratively with you to understand your unique family dynamics, helping you develop effective communication skills, foster emotional connection, and create a nurturing environment where you and your child can thrive. Together, we focus on building trust and mutual respect, strengthening your confidence as a parent while addressing challenges with empathy and clarity.
My approach is grounded in Positive Discipline, which emphasizes respectful and constructive parenting techniques, and Gordon Neufeld's attachment-based developmental theory, which highlights the critical role of secure emotional bonds in healthy child development.
About Postive Discipline
Discipline is from the Latin word discipulus "learner" and discere "learn” and our job as parents is to support our children to learn and grow.
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