WELCOME!
Hello, I'm Anne,
a Certified Master Parent Coach, wife for 44 years, mother of 3, grandmother of 10, Homeschooling Mom for 25 yrs, retired LPNurse, Montessori T.A., Postpartum Doula, Catholic Mentor & Professed Lay Carmelite. Coaching Parents so children feel cherished & parents gain skills & knowledge to create closer relationships.
Frustrated to peaceful...
Stressed. Frustrated. Tired. Annoyed. Yelling. Repeating commands. Triggered. Angry. I was all that at times. I was also heartbroken and mad at myself. Why did I sometimes lose it? I didn't want to be permissive and "let them get away with anything" as I heard so many others say. But I also didn't want to be too strict. Everything seemed out of balance. This is not how I wanted things to be.
When I was a little girl, I was scared when my parents yelled. They were great parents and I love them to the moon and back. But I didn't want my children to be afraid of me. I wanted to do things differently. I wanted them to feel safe, to trust me and follow me and grow to know and love God. I wanted them to be capable, peaceful, happy, and to see our relationship in the context of God's love for them.
I had prayed to God for these precious children and now I was like a big, scary Mommy at times. I read loads of parenting books without much improvement. Fast forward to Parent Coaching. Learning about child development and what all the research on brain science and nervous system science is teaching us about what children really need is awesome. We now know we do not have to scare children or punish them to make them do better. We can parent in imitation of Christ. We can learn about Jesus' leadership style and his love and be like Him. Learning and practicing how to have better relationships that creates more effective parenting was a game changer! Now I am calm, peaceful and joyful. I have effective communication. I have deep, loving connections with my kids and grandkids.
Knowing about the importance of connection and Attachment Science to the parent-child relationship changes everything!
I am becoming more and more the parent and the grandparent and the person, that God created me to be. I can guide other parents to be the parent God created them to be. While they guide their children to be the person God created them to be. I love this! I want to support others to achieve this too. Contributing to the well-being of others is rewarding, exciting, fun and is my calling!
As a Certified Master Parent Coach and a life long Catholic, I can be your guide and support you with compassion and confidentiality, while sharing the tools to be less stressed and a more effective, joyful parent without punishments or permissiveness.
I'll share with you the tools you need to deal with your "triggers" peacefully. When we relate to our kids in a close, connected relationship, it helps our kids to de-stress and co-regulate, as they learn self-regulation and grow to be emotionally intelligent.
With Christ as guide, and His grace working through you, you can be able to create the best relationship possible with your children (and/or grandchildren). A more joyful, playful, peaceful relationship. The relationship God wants for you.
Your future and their future will be bright!
And because you modeled Jesus' peaceful, connected, joyful love, in your parenting for your children/grandchildren, your joyful, cooperative kids will be self-reliant, empathetic, kind, compassionate, connected, joyful parents, who trust God, themselves some day too!
Our future just keeps getting better and better. Peaceful Parents one generation to the next.
Grandparents' love is essential.
Additional Information
More and more grandparents are raising their grandchildren. Some grandparents do a lot of childcare in the family. There are other grandparents that live far from their grandchildren and are overjoyed when they can all visit. In all of these situations love grows in an atmosphere of respect and empathy. Grandchildren feel cherished by their grandparents.
Grandparenting is a two-way exchange of unconditional love. A wonderful, delightful, amazing connection that requires patience, gentleness and some tools for peaceful communication.
Most grandparents are now re-thinking punishment as a tool to raising healthy children. And they are right. We now know and science has confirmed, that punishing makes children scared and angry. Fear will make children anxious and anger usually goes underground to resurface as tantrums, illness or low self-esteem.
Also, punishing doesn't teach or model to children how to have peaceful, kind relationships. And neither does permissiveness.
Peaceful parenting and grandparenting is possible when you have the program and the Coach to give you the tools and support you need. As grandparents we can have a strong loving influence on our grandchildren. But we first must have a deep loving, empathetic connection with them. Tell me about your grandparenting challenges, I'll show you how I can help. Or perhaps you already have a good relationship but you are wanting a great one. You long for the skills to have an even deeper, more loving connection with your grandchildren. These skills will help you to help them grow to be self-reliant and emotionally intelligent. Your grandchildren and great-grandchildren will have such happy, healthy, bright futures!
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"Shifting from addressing behaviors, to trying to understand their origins and triggers, means making a shift from managing our children to understanding them deeply."
From Brain-Body Parenting, Mona Delahooke, Ph D
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Parent Coaching on Zoom
Email me with any questions or to set up your 60 minute complimentary call for you to share how things are going for you. AnneP4RF@gmail.com
Specializing in Catholic Parenting. Parent Coaching $30/hour (10 to 15 minutes lesson with 45 to 50 minutes of coaching)
During our coaching sessions you get the support you need. You are listened to and understood. I hear your parenting struggles, challenges, and concerns, and we address them and find ways to create more ease in your day. I answer any questions about the course content. I hear your needs, feelings, and beliefs as we discuss creating healthy boundaries in your family. We find ways to turn unmet needs into met needs. You learn more effective communication skills, learn how to emotion coach and really connect deeply with your kids! Learn about the importance of Attachment science and how to apply it to your Catholic family. Let's look at any triggers you have and how to take their sting away, leaving you more peaceful and joyful and less stressed!
If your relationships are good presently, coaching can help you create great relationships!
Your lesson, in each session, will be tailored specifically to your needs. In the course, "Christ Models Leadership" you will learn about...
*Parenting styles including Christ Inspired Parenting--"Leader & Disciple"
*Effective Communication Skills/Compassionate & Reflective Listening
*Peaceful and Playful Parenting
*Basic Needs of the child and Attachment Science
*Development of child's Nervous System, and Parental triggers
*Development of the Brain and appropriate developmental expectations
*Emotional Intelligence for Catholic families, and life with siblings
*Merciful Discipline and teaching skills
*Establishing Boundaries from Catholic Family Values
*Cooperation stems from communication, connection (attachment) and correction (teaching)
The whole 10 lesson course, with 1 hour weekly Zoom coaching $300
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Looking for Catholic Parent Group Coaching? AnneP4RF@gmail.com
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PARENT COACHING MAY BE FOR YOU IF ONE OR MORE OF THESE APPLY.
These are yearnings of the heart. The desires to be closer to your children and family and especially to God.
- You are a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, future parent, teacher, nurse, doctor or caregiver.
- You want to be happy and explore what is robbing your joy.
- You have triggers that make it difficult to respond in a calm, loving way at times. And you want help minimizing those triggers.
- You find yourself yelling, even though you promised you won't yell anymore. You want to find the root causes of your yelling so you can go forward in calm and peace.
- You get easily frustrated and stressed dealing with your kids sometimes. You want to find out why and how to resolve old patterns.
- You are curious about the latest child brain development research and nervous system science. You want a guide who will delve into the science with you that teaches about raising children to be emotionally intelligent, capable, calm and happy.
- You want to get to the root of any blocks you may have to peaceful, loving, deeply connected, empathetic, joyful relationships.
- You want to have communication that creates a deeper connection and be a more effective parent and really enjoy your parenting.
- You want to learn why empathy, respect, listening and curiosity are vital in parenting, and how to implement them into your life.
- You sometimes do and say to your kids, what your parents did to you, despite the fact you wanted to raise your kids differently. You want help to uncover generational patterns and go forward with joy and peace.
- Sibling rivalry is a thing in your home; or kids don't listen to you and you long for cooperation and respect. You want to uncover what is going on underneath their behaviors and find peaceful, effective solutions.
- Your children sometimes get triggered easily and then they (and sometimes you), spiral out of control. You want to learn about self-regulation and co-regulation and nervous system science.
- You have very good relationships with your children/grandchildren and you want GREAT relationships. Or you want to learn how to be their emotion coach.
- Rewards and consequences have made things worse. Punishing is not working in the long run and has caused ruptures in your relationships. Instead of parenting using fear you want to lead in a way that inspires your kids to want to joyfully follow you.
- Anger is sometimes a stumbling block to joy in your parenting and you want to learn skills of peaceful communication.
- You want to learn how to create boundaries based on your values and how to explore some solutions together with your children.
- You want to learn developmental stages so your expectations of your children's behaviors and abilities are based in science and potential.
- You want to learn how to be more playful with your kids or how to incorporate playfulness into your parenting.
- You want time with a coach that is a safe, confidential space for you to grow and transform.
- You want to grow in relationship with, and parent your children with, God.
Let's do this together-- your future, your children's future can be joyful, peaceful, healthy and beautiful.
Peaceful Parents, One Generation to the Next.
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