What is Parent Coaching? How will this help solve the difficulties associated with changing the unwanted behaviors in children? A series of three articles will strive to answer these and other questions. Today's article has two sections:
1) Who Might Use Parent Coaching, and
2) Essential Elements.
Who Might Use Parent Coaching?
Some people, parents, are struggling with successful parenting. There are behaviors that these parents want to eliminate from their children. Some parents (families) have even been reported to child protection services in their state. This a position in which parents can feel trapped, frustrated, and overwhelmed. Trapped, cornered with no way out. What happens when someone is cornered? These parents sometimes live moment to moment. This whole picture paints a sad dark attic (life) full of cobwebs, dust (problems), and the unknown (hidden solutions).
These parents may be 'commanded' to participate in classes to improve their parenting, or to subject themselves to systemic therapy whereby they have multiple people entering their home. A light is then projected into all the dark corners in that attic (their lives), exposing all that dust (problems) to strangers.
There are many ways out of difficult parenting situations. The problem is locating the best method for making the necessary changes.
Some parents want to be better parents or perhaps perfect parents. They do not know where to turn. Perhaps confused, perhaps stuck. They do not seem to want to seek help from their extended family such as their own parents or the in-laws. These parents feel that no matter what they try, the outcome is never as it was intended or envisioned. They have family and parenting goals, but are not able to accomplish them effectively.
On the other hand, maybe a parent wants to find more effective and efficient methods to parent their children in this busy and chaotic world in which both parents are working outside the home.
Parent Coaching and mentoring can bring all of these scenarios to a successful ending. Sometimes 'taking the bull by the horns,' and dealing with problems directly is the best first action step. Information on parenting solutions is available.
Essential Elements
There is a relationship and connection between the coach (teacher/trainer/mentor) and the parent (learner/team member/mentee/protege). The coaching or mentoring process is part of a larger process of change. Coaches and mentors will act as guides, leading and assisting parents towards a destination or goal.
The coach accomplishes this achievement by making use of strong Influence on the decisions and behavior of others, in this case, the parents. The coach holds this influence through knowledge, experience, wisdom, skill, and patience. There is regular contact between the coach and protege, or parent.
The coach or mentor may still be actively working in their field of expertise or in retirement. A good coach or mentor will have given workshops or seminars that are related to the topics sought by the potential protege. Coaches and mentors are experienced leaders, trainers, and supervisors.
Coaches and mentors will use training through instruction, direction, activities, assignments, practice exercises, and motivational talks. Coaches and mentors seek better performance, and goal achievement for those who are engaged in the coaching and mentoring processes. Coaches genuinely enjoy teaching, providing guidance, advising, suggesting, teaching problem-solving methods and seeing solutions put into practice. Parent Coaching will teach, train, encourage, facilitate goal achievement, and guide parents to successful and effective parenting.
Be on the lookout for the next article, (Part II): "The Foundations." It will explain in more depth the coaching and mentoring processes.
Some people, parents, are struggling with becoming successful parents. There are behaviors that are desired to be eliminated from their children. Some parents want to be better parents or perhaps perfect parents. They do not know where to turn. On the other hand, maybe the desire is to find more effective and efficient methods to parent their children in this busy and chaotic world in which both parents are working outside the home. Become the successful parent that I know you are with Parenting 101 Success
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