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If you like “O” columnist Martha Beck’s writings, you’re going to love this series of six tele-classes!
Mary Ann Lowry has adapted powerful tools from Dr. Beck’s Finding Your Own North Star to apply them to children from preschool to teens. This is a beautiful way to diminish the typical challenges of discipline. Her upcoming class combines best discipline practices with proven coaching tools, so you can become your child’s life coach. Here are some wise words straight from Mary Ann:
“Parenting is by far the most rewarding job that I ever experiences. However, it was also the toughest and most important role in my life. My babies arrived healthy and brought to life the theme ‘bouncing baby boys.’ However, there was no manual as to what to do to nurture, support, discipline and love my new little ones. As a Martha Beck Certified Coach, I wanted to develop a special niche in coaching parents.
I planned this class to equip you with professional coaching tools and discipline strategies to make the job of parenting more fun and more manageable. The class is designed to help you raise awesome children by broadening your parenting knowledge while honoring their unique personalities and innate gifts. The class also includes two complimentary coaching sessions for each participant and recordings of all sessions.
Before we will get into parenting tips, we”™ll take a look in the rearview mirror of your life. Most people base their parenting skills on how they were parented. During the first and second sessions, you”™ll come to a new understanding of yourself and the influence of your family of origin. Parenting skills tend to be passed from generation to generation. That is great if you experienced a wonderful happy childhood. However, I”™ve coached many clients, who walk around with untrue false thoughts that they came to believe in their childhood. Some of these thoughts aren”™t even true and they”™re keeping people from moving forward in life.
I want to give parents the skills to discover their own limiting thoughts. By the way, we all have them. You”™ll learn how to be your own life coach to get rid of false beliefs. Through this discovery process, you can change patterns in your parenting that really didn”™t work well for you and may not be working well for your children. “
“Becoming Your Child’s Life Coach: Guiding Your Children to Their Own North Star” will begin on February 20th. I will be attending these tele-classes, and I invite you to join me in the journey into empowered parenting! For more details, please e-mail Mary Ann at maryannlowry@mac.com, or go to her website to sign up directly at www.createanewseason.com!.
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I love this! As a mom sometimes I think I am my kids toughest critic, only because my parents were mine. I am serious about making this world accessible to my boys and giving them the wings to fly and the space to fail. I am so excited about reading into this further.