What is Parent Coaching?

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Parent Coaching is helping someone become clear on their own parenting goals through listening, asking powerful questions, teaching skills and providing support to bring about change. 

Research shows that parent coaching reduces parental stress, gives important resources, and helps parents learn and use their strengths and come to appreciate themselves and their children.

Why is Parent Coaching Important?

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Society has become busier, more diverse, and families are spread out over a wider geographical area, causing traditional support systems to fall apart. Today’s children are being raised in a variety of family structures such as blended and single parent families, dual income families, and grandparents raising grandchildren. Read more here.

Find out more about becoming a Parent Coach through Concordia University in St. Paul, MN

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http://www2.csp.edu/scs/Certificates/ParentCoaching.html

What Can I Expect?

Once you contract with a Parent Coach, you can expect the following:
  • They will provide guidance by listening non-judgmentally and asking open ended questions to implement strategies designed with your strengths and values in mind.
  • They will provide support, guidance and resources.
  • They will help you find ways of taking care of yourself so that you can take care of your children.
  • They will impart new information in development, temperament, discipline, and other strategies to help you parent from birth to
    age 99.
  • They will help you clarify your goals and values by discussing topics you may not have thought of.

What is Parent Coach Connection?

We take parent education to families and coach parents in partnership, to work effectively with their children. Unlike therapy, which focuses on past experiences and diagnosis, parent coaching is focused on empowerment and building on family strengths. It is personalized education and support. We provide a personal Parent Coach that you will be able to call throughout your years of parenting. Hopefully, having a parent coach will be as common as having a personal pediatrician. 
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How Do I Get Started?

Details about how to get started, forms and sample contract can be found here.

What's New

Check out two new articles about parent coaching and the 2e: Twice-Exceptional Child. 2e: Twice Exceptional Children are gifted and have learning difficulties that go by many names, including learning disabilities, learning disorders, and just plain learning differences.