Parent Coaching Beginnings:
What is Parent Coaching? How will Parent Coaching help solve the difficulties associated with changing the unwanted behaviors in children? This is the second in a series of three articles that will strive to answer these and other questions. Today's article has two sections: 1) Parent coaching beginnings, and 2) General Characterizations of Coaching and Mentoring.
To describe parent coaching, we will look at both coaching and mentoring. The processes contained in both have their principles and practices based in or influenced by different disciplines. Psychology, sociology, career counseling, positive adult development, professional counseling, Motivational Interviewing, and adult learning, to name a few, have contributed to the processes we will discuss.
General Characterizations of Coaching and Mentoring:
Coaching:
Generally, coaching is most frequently associated with sports, high school, as well as professional. Coaching and mentoring are similar in many aspects. A coach has often completed a career in the particular field. As an example, the coach of a professional football team may have been a successful football player in professional football. The coach usually teaches a younger generation based on his or her experiences. Coaching, through instruction and training, often has only a single definite end goal in mind.
The coaching method of directing people's movements and thought process might include giving motivational talks or specific directions. The coach trains people to perform better, to be effective and efficient, through seminars, workshops, or actual practice. The coach also teaches and trains by laying out a plan, example, encouragement, and highlighting the potential of the individual. The coach steers, or maneuvers the individual to the desired goal.
• For sports coaches, this goal will mean victory in a game, or series of games.
• For marriage coaches, this goal will mean a stronger marital bond, and/or less conflict.
• For family coaches, this goal will mean less conflict, and a stronger familial bond between parents, between the parents and the children, or amongst the children themselves.
• For Parent Coaching, this goal will mean the elimination of the children's' identified unwanted behaviors, or a significant improvement in those behaviors.
• For Online Parent Coaching, this goal will mean the children's identified unwanted behaviors have been eliminated or significantly improved. Three interactive components are usually included:
1) this coach teaches parenting, parenting skills, and parenting solutions through learning in an online parenting class,
2) coaching contact via email or phone, and
3) commenting between parents participating in the lessons.
Mentoring:
The following concepts apply to all types of mentoring or mentorships. The process of mentoring involves a relationship and bond developing between mentor and learner. Mentoring is somewhat abstract and widespread in its aims. This is usually a face-to-face proposition. A personal relationship between mentor and mentored develops over time. The relationship is part of the mentoring process of change. There is regular contact initiated by either the mentor or mentored.
The mentor may still be actively working in his/her field of expertise (In this case, it would be professionally supporting or treating families, parents, and/or children.) and act as a guide to the mentee, being experienced, knowledgeable, wise, skilled, patient, and more settled than the mentored person. The Mentor usually teaches and trains by example and facilitates achieving a goal through encouragement. There is a subtle guiding and steering to the right path.
Protégé is the term usually associated with the mentored person. The mentee or protégé is usually less experienced, and younger. Perhaps being uncertain or confused, they learn by emulating or trying to be like the mentor.
Two examples of the different mentor-protégé relationships in the modern world are:
1) The new employee, entering a company or business for the first time, is 'adopted' by someone who has been in the company for a long while. The new employee might be experiencing business culture shock, or might not be prepared for the rigors of this particular workplace. The mentor then serves as a buffer and guide, through the company operations. And,
2) An existing employee might show potential to one day be a leader, or could be great elsewhere. A person experienced in the company informally takes on this employee and becomes the mentor. This mentor will teach the protégé the necessary skills to advance in the workplace.
Though there are different kinds of mentoring and coaching, including different techniques associated with each, yet many essential elements are the same. (Read the article, "Parent Coaching (Part I): Can it Help?")
Keep a look out for the last part of this article series, "Parent Coaching (Part III): What is Parent Coaching?" This article will answer the original questions and describe characteristics of the professional Parent Coaching process.
Some people, parents, are struggling with becoming successful parents. There are behaviors that these parents want to eliminate 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 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. Become the successful parent that I know you are with Parenting 101 Success
The support of parent coaching can ease stress and create the potential for you to solve any issue ultimately by yourself. Consider your situation; would you benefit from Parent Coaching?
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