60 Days to a Deeper Parent-Child Connection

We will review the details of your current parenting experience and what your ideal experience looks like. Review the goals of parenting, the importance of emotional safety and the necessary skills to develop these.

In my experience, it's not skills or knowledge that holds people back from achieving their desired goals it's fear, guilt and self-doubt. So let's get these out of the way. You deserve to have your ideal parenting experience and it's possible. Give yourself permission to let go of the past and move forward in love.

Consistency is the path to building trust and creating an emotionally safe environment. Learn all the many ways consistency can positively shift your parenting experience. Let's explore how you can incorporate more of it.

Nurturing is being able to recognize and meet the needs of yourself and your child. Self-care is the prerequisite to caring for others. When you learn to make time for self-care you will have more patience and capacity to meet the needs of your child.

It's not your job to control your child. It is your job to lead. Learn how to be the leader and guide your child to acceptable behavior. Discipline is often an area where many parents unintentionally sacrifice emotional safety for resolution. This does not need to be a trade-off. Learn how to simplify and streamline discipline and get on the same page with your partner.

Listening to your child is a way of tuning in to your child. This is your doorway into his/her inner world. Learn to listen without attaching to assumptions. Assumptions kill communication and lock you into only knowing the version of your child that feels safe for your child to reveal.

How you speak to your child is an extension of the respect you have for your child and it will eventually be reflected back to you. It is also a measurement of how trustworthy you are. No environment is emotionally safe without trust. Your word holds the power to build or destroy your parent-child relationship.

Let's see how you've put everything together. Re-assess where you're at now and how your miracle is growing.