Courses
Becoming Me While Raising You
Course Outline
B Begin with the end goal in mind!
- What are your greatest parenting challenges?
- What have you done in the past that has worked? Hasn’t worked? What do you see are the obstacles? How have you contributed to where the relationship is today?
- Set personal and parenting goals so we know where we’re headed.
E Educate yourself on the teen brain!
- Define adolescence, when does it start/end?
- What are the major changes in the brain during this time?
- Why shifting the way you parent is critical during this stage of development.
C Commit to knowing your values and setting boundaries!
- Define your personal and family values so you can be sure you are passing these onto your teenager.
- Your values feed right into setting boundaries that stick. Discover and create the non-negotiables and areas of choice/flexibility you can provide for your teen’s growing autonomy.
- Learn the best method for implementing boundaries that will be adhered to by your teen.
O Open communication and trust building with your teen!
- Five ways to create an open dialogue with your teen right now.
- Seeing your son or daughter as they are, why is this critical during adolescence?
- How to build the trust in your connection with your son or daughter, 3 critical components.
M Manage discipline versus natural consequences!
- Why parenting the way we were parented no longer works and what does.
- How to help your teenager become more accountable.
- When do you step in and fix (help) and when do you allow the natural consequences to be enough?
I Investigate your inner wisdom and develop self-care!
- What every parent needs to know about honing their intuition and using it to parent.
- The relationship between outside “noise” and your ability to parent your unique child effectively.
- Taking good care of yourself, it’s more than heading to the spa…what self-care really means and how to implement this in your daily life.
N Navigate your past to be the parent your child needs today!
- Let’s look at how the childhood experience connects to the way you are parenting your children.
- What is a generational pattern? Which ones do you want to preserve and what do you want to toss out?
- We are the manual on which out grandkids will be raised. What does this mean?
G Giving grace to yourself and others while you raise kids!
- What exactly is grace and to whom do I need to look at giving grace to in my life?
- How grace comes into parenting teenagers and how to cultivate this practice in your life.
- Continuing to educate yourself about adolescent development, how to know when you need more support.
