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Parent Coaching as a Career
We often observe parents who are impatient, angry or exasperated because life nowadays is stressful and hectic. This has made parenting and raising a child a tough and confusing issue at times. How does a parent meet all demands of life and still always be available for your child? How do you deal with issues like discipline, sibling rivalry and unhealthy eating habits? How do you make sure that what you are doing as a parent is appropriate and successful parent coach can answer all these questions.  See more...

Communication – Key to Effective Parenting
Exasperated parents often tell child counselors that they have almost no communication with their children. Once a child feels that she is growing up, especially at the onset of adolescence, she will start to distance herself from you and begin to talk more to her peers. Mostly parents ignore this because they feel that it is a part of growing up. True, it is very much a part of growing up, but ignoring this initial distancing will create larger problems. A communication gap might eventually turn into an emotional gap which is tougher to bridge.  See more...

What is Parenting?
The definition of parenting lies somewhere within the seemingly endless series of sleepless nights, boo-boos kissed, noses wiped, fireflies caught, and the many lessons both taught and learned. However, we cannot capture parenting within pages of a scrapbook, or from the sidelines of a little league game. Parenting is not something that can be isolated in a moment. So, what is parenting?  See more...

Step Parenting: Survival Secrets
Parenting your own children is hard enough, but an even greater challenge is step parenting children who are not your own. This is one of the toughest jobs, especially if you have never had children of your own and are entering into a relationship with a person who already has children.  See more...

The Benefits of Using a Parenting Coach
Parenting is a giant question mark (?) for many people, but it doesn’t have to be this way. You must know that whatever challenges you are facing, there are practical solutions that a parenting coach can provide you. A parenting coach can help you find answers to the issues that you are having with your children. There are certified parenting coaches as well as psychologists who specialize in parental coaching. These individuals can be excellent resources in your times of need and struggle.  See more...

The Keys to Effective Parenting
Effective parenting is just as much about your attitude as it is your child’s attitude. Effective parenting allows you to parent your children in such a way that you both nurture and love them, but you are also able to get the results that you desire from your children.  See more...

Good Parenting Skills 101
Parenting is a skill set which can be learned. Being a parent is a joyous thing, but good parenting skills are something that you have to continuously work at. You will never be a “perfect” parent, because we all make mistakes. Here are a few tips to ensure that you are being the best parent that you can be.  See more...

Choosing a Parenting Coach
For many parents, a parenting coach is a relief and a person who can guide their parenting skills and strengths. They are able to guide parents and aid them in understanding why their children are doing what they are doing. Parenting coaches are individuals that are both trained and certified in the field. They focus specifically on helping you negotiate and clarify relationships within the family.  See more...

Integrating the Whole-Child/Whole-Parent Model into my Parent Consulting Practice
It seems to me of great importance to approach my parent consulting business from the perspective of the whole-child & whole-parent. Without looking at the whole-child/parent, one misses pieces of the puzzle that create people, thinking, well-being, realities and relationships.  See more...

Reaching Across the Fence (PDF)
As parents seek new and creative solutions to the challenge of raising children in a society increasingly alienated from family, we must acknowledge the imperative of re-establishing supportive community/ connections. The role of guiding our children becomes increasingly difficult when we feel lost and alone. It is time to embrace the benefits of both giving and receiving assistance among our broader family. The Academy for Coaching Parents International is one example of the innovative responses emerging to counter the sense of isolation experienced by many parents/families.  See more...

Why Hire a Parent Coach?
A parent coach is a professional who can take a look at each family’s specific dynamics, help find solutions to problems, and bring out the best in everybody. Because every family is unique with its own set of unique personalities, each family needs a personal assessment and its own personal coach.   See more...

What is Coaching?
Just a few years ago the only people who hired professional coaches were in business. They hired business coaches to help them advance their careers in a systematic way.  See more...

Put me in the Game, Coach!
What do successful CEOs, happy homemakers, and professional ballplayers have in common? They all benefit from having a coach to help them fulfill their goals and dreams. The techniques that enhance relationships and bring satisfaction for executives are also powerful tools for parenting.  See more...

Why Families Use Coaches
What do successful CEOs, happy homemakers, and professional golfers have in common? They all benefit from the resources of a life coach to help them live productive lives and fulfill their goals and dreams. The techniques that promote awareness and change, enhance relationships and bring satisfaction for executives are also powerful tools for parenting.  See more...

An Interview with Christine Hohlbaum
Christine Hohlbaum has a BA in political science from Smith College and a combined MA in International Relations, German and English Literature from the University of Constance, Germany. Her parenting and humor articles have been published in hundreds of publications. Christine shares: “Most of my first book, Diary of a Mother, was written in a Dunkin’ Donuts parking lot while listening to my son snore in the backseat.” With her newest book SAHM: I Am coming out in May 2005, Christine’s fans are eager to read her next offering.  See more...

Tips for Raising a Terrific Preschooler
The preschool years are an exciting time for both children and parents. It is the time when children pass through babyhood and enter childhood. During their third and fourth years, children enjoy a great deal of social, emotional, cognitive, and physical growth. They become stronger and more in control of their bodies, emotions, and environment. It is in this stage that many pieces of the puzzle start to fall into place, and parents begin to catch glimpses of the person their child is becoming.  See more...

Parenting with Style: Why You Might Clash with Your Child
Every morning, six-year-old Josh and his mom clash. A daydreamer by nature, Josh moves through life at a slower pace than his task-oriented mom. This is most evident in the morning when meandering Josh and his highly organized mother are trying to get out the door. This daily struggle highlights their obviously different personal styles.    See more...

Healthy Self- Esteem: Basic Building Block for Children
Healthy self-esteem, not to be confused with high self-esteem, is an essential personality trait, the foundation of achieving personal goals and the quality of a happy person. Children with healthy self-esteem have confidence in their abilities, will try new things, make mistakes, and learn from them. Confident children have an internal sense of satisfaction as well as an internal value system against which they measure their achievement or progress. They come from an empowered place.  See more...

Values & Vision: Two Building Blocks for Bonding
In my joy of the last thirty years as mother, stepmother, teacher, and therapist, I have observed that two things hold families together: values and vision. Without these two building blocks, family structure is not cohesive. Communication among family members is not clear. Instead, family members tend to live as individuals sharing a household instead of family members sharing a bond.  See more...

Top Ten Ways to Raise Emotionally Intelligent Kids
Having a high level of emotional intelligence in your children is the best way to ensure that they live a happy, successful, and responsible life as an adult. Here are ten ways to help your kids attain a high degree of emotional intelligence.  See more...

7 Steps to Teach Children to Manage Stress
Traditionally, childhood is a time of carefree summers spent with best friends, trips to amusement parks and Saturday matinees at the movies. But for many children, it's also a time of great stress. In fact, stress—those overwhelming feelings of doubt about ourselves or our ability to handle things—is as common in children as adults. The greatest challenge to parents today is teaching children to manage stress effectively.  See more...

Ten Key Trends in the Future of Parenting
The future of parenting in the aftermath of disasters such as 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina has cast a pervasive sense of insecurity and vulnerability, and has prompted many people to reevaluate the importance of their families. After all, in the last five years, we have witnessed natural and manmade disasters on a scale like never before. As we watch the devastation unfold on our television screens, we instinctively reach out to our families for comfort. Is it truly possible for parents to give their children a sense of strength, security, and faith in the future?  See more...

Helping Children Cope with Trauma
Whether a personal trauma or a national tragedy like 9/11, our children suffer. Whether their suffering manifests as overt misbehavior or in quiet reticence, we can help children cope so they do not feel alone. While we cannot shield children's innocence, we can help them feel safe.  See more...

Giving Children Space
How often have you heard, “I’m bored. There’s nothing to do.” You may have replied, “Go outside and play. Go watch television. Find something to do.” Perhaps you were secretly sighing, “And leave me in peace for a few minutes.”  See more...

Music in Childhood
Love, respect, and appreciation for music are easy to share with our children and build life skills at the same time. During the first years of our child’s life, musical skills build self-esteem and enhance expression. Musical rhythms spur motor development. Learning melodies and words stimulates listening capacity and help children develop receptive language. See more...

Clear Communication + Heartfelt Intention = Positive Outcome
You’ve probably observed that most conflicts that occur arise out of miscommunications. That means if you want people to benefit from your ideas and abilities, make sure you talk in a way they can hear. It is not someone else’s responsibility to listen to you; it is your responsibility to communicate clearly to them, then check that they got your message.  See more...

Make More Than Christmas Wishes Come True for Your Children
What gifts did your children receive during the holidays? If they included insight into their well-being, then Santa Claus has been looking out for them.  See more...

Empower Your Children To Make Good Decisions
Lawrence J. Greene, author of Helping Your Child Make Wise Decisions, says children solve problems, bounce back from setbacks, and learn from mistakes by following their parents’ actions. Parents do it and children learn it.  Yet, that implies kids always mimic their parents’ actions. I disagree. Children will learn to stand on their own if parents know how to empower them. See more...

Healing Children's Hearts
Events of the magnitude of the recent terrorist attacks can harm young hearts and impair children’s respiratory systems. And when the result is a hurting heart, children are experiencing physical and/or psychological strain beyond their normal ability to cope.  See more...