There is a lot of good parenting advice on the internet. Indeed, I love working with clients who are proactive about accessing expert information.
Some areas of parenting, however, are especially well suited to one-on-one work with a parenting coach: Sibling rivalry is high on that list.
In my work as a parenting coach, a big part of my role is as the puzzle master. As I talk with parents and hear about them as individuals (their values, their priorities, their parenting style) and as I hear about their kids (their strengths, their challenges, their unique personalities), it is like getting all the puzzle pieces on the table.
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So many of the parents who seek me out are like Sharon and Curtis, parents to four-year-old and six-year-old boys. Curtis first reached out to me because Sharon had given him an ultimatum: Get some parenting help or we’re done. When Curtis explained to me what was up, my heart sank. As an experienced parenting coach, I know that usually by the time one spouse has given another spouse a clear signal that things better change and change fast, it is very hard for couples to realign themselves. Though Curtis had intended to hire me just for himself, I insisted that I speak to Sharon before I said yes.
Historically, even as adults, we have lived near our parents, siblings and cousins. When we had parenting struggles, we also were surrounded by a host of people we trusted. Furthermore, we tended to gather in homogeneous neighborhoods, communities and uniting cultural institutions, like a common church or temple or the Italian (or Irish or Swedish) American Association. We also were more likely to have grown up babysitting, lifeguarding or scooping ice cream, giving us micro experiences with kids of different ages.
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Lots of parenting coaches, like me, come from the world of education. That means we bring our classroom experiences and teacher perspective to our parenting coaching.
Here are some things that both as a parenting coach and as a former educator, I’d like parents to focus on.
These days, parenting is a lonely business. We can no longer depend on our family and friends to guides us through the sticky parts of a particular age or stage with our children. That’s why, today, we have parenting coaches.
Here’s how parenting coaching addresses some common parenting challenges.
Using a parent coach to manage child behaviors makes more sense than you might think.
First, parenting is a skill; it is not innate.
Many parents hesitate to get help because they feel that a good parent should just know instinctively how to help and guide their child.
These parents do not realize that historically parenting knowledge has been handed down from generation to generation by the wise counsel of the village—by parents, grandparents, religious leaders in the olden days and more recently by teachers, coaches and even librarians.
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Fighting among your kids can ruin any chance of peace and harmony in your home and, more importantly, it can ruin your relationship with your kids.
Parenting coaching can support you in creating the happy, healthy relationships among with each other that will serve your kids now and well beyond your lifetime.
Middle school is a time of intense growth. Your child is forming their identity and can be more influenced by peers than ever before. Friendships become complex, intense, and sometimes confusing. Social hierarchies and cliques emerge, along with the overwhelming pressure to fit in. And short-lived friendships can lead to feelings of uncertainty and instability.
Many of my clients first came to the United States as adults, sometimes for graduate school, but often for a job. Some of them brought their young children with them; some had their children in the United States.
But here’s the truth: If your child enters preschool or Kindergarten in the United States, you are raising an American. At the very least a hybrid child.
It is only natural, that you will have some cultural crashes with your children.
