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Inside the Minds of Disorganized, Busy Boys Boys & Books...Bridging the Gap

You’ve tried to interest your boys in curling up with a good book—but what can compete with soccer, video games and TV? Not that there’s much time for reading, anyway, between time spent fishing in their backpacks for tonight’s homework and minutes wasted puzzling over half-remembered instructions for the assignment. Energetic boys can be an especially hard sell when it comes to picking up a book or getting organized.

Now, educators and experts are coming up with new ways to help parents tease boys back on track. Boys get a bum rap these days for being scatterbrained and disorganized at school and at home. “We know that brain development can be slower in boys due to testosterone levels, but I believe that nurturing, maturation and adaptation fill in that gap,” notes Dr. Caron B. Goode, a Fort Worth parenting coach. Read More...

Dr. Caron Goode touched as an expert parent advisor for How to Make a Family!

Caron Goode has been breathing new life into parenting skills for families for more than 30 years. As a psychotherapist and educator, Goode works with children and their parents to discover each youngster’s innate gifts and to nurture them with joy, common sense and a mind/body connectedness that enriches and benefits parents and child. See more...

Program Offers Guidance to Southeast Texas Parents
By ROBERT LOPEZ, The Enterprise

On reality shows like "Supernanny" and "Nanny 911," parenting coaches shadow moms and dads and walk them through child-rearing predicaments. In the end, everyone has usually learned a valuable life lesson.

In reality, bewildered parents typically seek out - or are ordered to go to - a counselor. Meetings can stretch over a period of months or longer and the results aren't always perfect.

Pop star Britney Spears was ordered last week to undergo eight hours a week with a parenting coach, who, according to an Associated Press story, will monitor and take note of the singer's interactions with her children. (Britney Spears was also ordered to go through twice-weekly random drug testing.)  See more...

Academy for Coaching Parents Releases Advice List to Assist Britney Spears

World renowned Academy for Parent Coaches compiles advice for Britney Spears on becoming a better parent.

In the latest of related tragedies, a Los Angeles family court ordered Britney Spears to undergo eight hours of training with a parent coach to develop strong parenting techniques.  The sensational court order recognized the field of parent coaching as a place for both parents and children to find shelter in the storm of life from issues tearing apart families across America.  See more...

The Art & Science of Coaching Parents
Building a Home-Based Parent Coaching Business

Until now, there has been no book available for those caring individuals who want to help parents and their children by specializing in the field of parent coaching in addition to establishing a lucrative home-based business. See more...

First man enrolls for Parent Coaching program of ACPI
– Coaches make better Fathers!

Kevin Heath, a parent coach in the making, believes coaching will make him a better father. Mr. Heath, the first man to enroll in the parent coaching program at Academy for Coaching Parents International (ACPI), is hoping to gain something more from his studies than a new career skill. See more...

Academy for Coaching Parents International (ACPI) opens enrollments for Fall Classes
starting on 20th August

Academy for Coaching Parents International, an institute providing a certified distance-learning program that prepares students to successfully operate their own parent coaching business, is now enrolling for the fall session commencing on 20th August 2007. The ACPI ‘parent coaching certification’ training program consists of 3 to 5 primary modules of coursework completed over a 6 month time span. Courses are offered through teleconference and email.  See more...