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Positive Discipline Parent Coaching
Sara is a Certified Positive Discipline Parent Educator and a member of PDA.org
As a parent coach I work with adults in creating a plan to address your specific needs and continue to support you as you practice and implement the plan. We look at the underlying beliefs to what is driving the behavior (both the child’s and yours) to discern how to address the situation. This is an overall skill you will learn to use whenever unwanted behavior arises. I use experiential learning and feedback to increase your comfort level and understanding for you to feel more in control and encouraged in your parenting skills.
What I provide are tools for you use to in discerning what appropriate behavior you can exhibit towards your children in difficult situations and in discerning the belief behind the behavior of your child. We want to know why they are doing/saying/behaving as they are so we can address the root and teach life skills for them to be able to handle these stressors on their own in life. Children take their cues from us, we want them to learn from us and feel comfortable coming to us as their protective guardians. We want to provide tools for growth not fear.
What is “Positive Discipline”?
· Positive Discipline Parenting (or educating) is discipline through kind and firm methods.
· It is neither strict (authoritarian) nor permissive (laisses faire).
· It is authoritative by being respectful to yourself and the child while realizing that YOU are the parent/educator/guardian and need to take the lead.
· Positive Discipline Parenting elicits mutual cooperation and respect through calm communication.
· Positive Discipline Parenting does not mean you won’t ever get angry or frustrated with your kids.
· It also definitely doesn’t mean throwing up your hands and letting them do whatever they want.
Communicating expectations and consequences for actions (both negative and positive) ahead of time is one foundation block to positive discipline. Children need to know what is expected of them, they need – in fact crave – that direction.
Positive Discipline is effective discipline.
· It is kind and firm;
· it creates connection;
· it is effective long-term;
· it teaches the life skills we want our children to have to be functioning, self-disciplined, respectful, kind, cooperative, problem solving adults.