Welcome back!
I have just had the pleasure of completing the Become Your Child’s Life Coach tele-class, expertly taught by Martha Beck Certified Life Coach Maryanne Lowry. If you are interested in the empowering possibilities open to you, I encourage you to take a look and contact Maryanne in preparation for her next series. Here is some detailed information about what you can look forward to in her six week course:
Becoming Your Child’s Life Coach
Are you ready to learn techniques to diminish your discipline challenges? By changing your parenting style to a life coaching style, you’ll find that the hardest parts of parenting seem to get easier.
Through my professional knowledge as a special education teacher and my experience as a Mom, I’ve developed a class to blend my life coaching skills with the important topics in parent education. It’s absolutely possible to raise awesome kids without destroying their spirits at the same times.
Cost for this six session class is $99 and includes two complimentary personal coaching sessions for parents. Contact maryannlowry@mac.com to learn more and to receive answers for your questions.
Session One: Revisiting Your Own Childhood
Through a group activity, you’ll discover the values you bring to parenting. Most people learn to parent through observing the way that they were parented. Participants will learn about the generational values that are passed through their personal family tree.
Session Two: Parenting as the Stargazer
Parents will be introduced to the concept of parenting as the Stargazer. If your own childhood appears to be flawed, you’ll discover that it is perfect for you, as you begin this season in your life, as a parent.
Session Three: Discovering and Honoring Your Essential Self
After completing coaching tools, participants will begin to understand their unique personalities without the social programming that began in childhood. You’ll begin to understand the environment and nurturing that facilitates raising a child, who has a strong sense of who he/she is. Parents will learn how to offer the type of home environment that places a strong emphasis on living authentically, so the child can flourish and develop his/her natural gifts or talents.
Session Four: Discovering the Authentic / Essential Wiring of Your Children
Prior to class, parents will note the types of activities that seem to energize your child and lead to a feeling of happiness and well-being. Children live authenically during the early childhood years, so parents can easily determine how their child is uniquely wired. With these discoveries, parents will learn to teach their children to recognize the “Yes” and “No” signs of their body compass. This session will also be devoted to parenting by temperament and understanding the reason for misbehavior.
Session Five: Discipline: The Rod is a Compass Not a Paddle
Parents will learn to parent by using the language of choice. Discipline strategies that relate to the poor behavior choice (i.e. natural and logical consequences) will be shared with participants. Children need training, but punitive parenting doesn’t guide children to their ultimate destiny.
Session Six: Adapting Life Coaching Tools for Children
Parents will be introduced to tools to facilitate the development of social skills,while maintaining the individual essence of their children’s spirits. Discussion will center on adapting tools introduced by Martha Beck, so they can be used in parenting children from preschool through teen level.
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