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GENTLE PARENT COACHING

Where An

Easier
Family Life
Begins

Encouragement and guidance for

loving parents who want

parenting to be easier

Encouragement and

guidance for loving

parents who want

parenting to be easier

“Your time with your family can be difficult. You work hard, care deeply, and still feel like there’s never enough time, energy, or patience.”

SOUND FAMILIAR? YOU’RE NOT ALONE

FOR THE PARENT WHO NEEDS TO HEAR THIS

You never imagined this would be your life. You love your family, yet you may feel like:

“I’m tired of losing my patience and then yelling at my child.”

“I get so much conflicting advice about how I should be parenting.”

“I just don’t know what to do.”

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WHAT WE CAN WORK ON TOGETHER

There is a better way. Parenting can get easier. You can…

Improve Communication

Be more encouraging, less critical

Express your love in ways beyond saying, “I love you.”

Reduce Conflict

Use gentle, positive parenting strategies (This is not permissive parenting.)

Minimize power struggles: use win-win strategies

Overcome the Overwhelming

Reclaim your power and your time

Address the source of your family’s stress

Reduce your stress, increase your patience

Improve Communication

Be more encouraging, less critical.

Express your love and caring beyond saying, “I love you.”

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Reduce Conflict

Use gentle, positive parenting strategies (This is not permissive parenting.)

Minimize power struggles – use win-win strategies

_____

Overcome the overwhelming

Reclaim your power and your time

Address the source of your family’s stress

Reduce your stress, increase your patience

_______________

How I can help

Parenting and family life can be stressful.

When parents seek stress relief, they can begin by finding answers to their pressing questions.

They might ask how they can:

Make parenting easier? Manage temper tantrums and challenging behaviors?
Create a more peaceful home life? With children? Between parents? Extended family?
Resolve conflict and have better communication with a co-parent when separated or divorced?

If any of these sound familiar, I can help you find answers.

I am not AI.

I don’t use fancy graphics.

I won’t shame or embarrass you.

I offer encouragement, guidance that is personal – specific to your family’s needs, and practical solutions – so your family life can get easier.

About Jennifer

I understand how stressful having a busy family life can be.

On one of my worst days as a parent, when I pulled into our driveway after work with my young boys in the back seat, I saw that our front door was standing wide open.

I fell into a panic, then I wanted to cry.

In all the morning rush, I had forgotten to lock the door. I was in a hurry and was thinking about what all I had to do within the next hour, not about what I had to do in the next five minutes.

That moment still haunts me when I think of what could have happened.

I hate to admit that on that day my stress and its possible consequences threatened my family’s wellbeing.

Just like other parents, being a good parent has always been extremely important to me — yet I found it genuinely hard.

As a working parent, I know firsthand the pressure of managing work and family at the same time — the calendar, the clock, the endless to-do list. I’d be at work worrying about what I needed to do once I got home. After I got home I had to rush to get dinner ready. Because I was often emotionally and physically exhausted, I could be short on patience with my family.

The memories of those difficult days have never left me. They are the reason I do this work:

30 years experience supporting busy parents
24 years of teaching parenting classes for Bellevue College, Washington state
Certified Parent Coach (PCI)

Just like other parents, being a good parent has always been extremely important to me — yet I found it genuinely hard.

The memories of those difficult days have never left me. They are the reason I do this work:

30 years experience supporting busy parents
24 years of teaching parenting classes for Bellevue College, Washington state
Certified Parent Coach (PCI)

WHAT PARENTS SAY

FAMILY LIFE CAN GET BETTER

What parents say:

Family life can get better.

“Thank you for your support, encouraging words, and endless sources of wisdom.”

A PARENT

“How lucky we are to have had you in our life when we started our family and when we needed guidance.”

A PARENT

“You are a wealth of knowledge and experience. Thank you for making us better parents.”

A PARENT

“Thank you for your support, encouraging words, and endless sources of wisdom.”

A PARENT

“How lucky we are to have had you in our life when we started our family and when we needed guidance.”

A PARENT

“You are a wealth of knowledge and experience. Thank you for making us better parents.”

A PARENT

“I think I love you more.”

FROM A CHILD, AS TOLD TO HIS PARENT AFTER WORKING WITH JENNIFER

Your Family Life Can Get Better

“I think I love you more.”

FROM A CHILD, AS TOLD TO HIS PARENT AFTER WORKING WITH JENNIFER

An easier family life starts with one conversation.

Schedule a complimentary mini-session.

Bring a parenting challenge to our call, and we will work on finding a way to make things better.

I hope that as a result of our coaching call, you find a strategy that you can use.

If however, you realize that getting more guidance and support may help, this coaching session will be a starting point for our work together.

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