Parenting Classes and Coaching
“The most powerful way to change the world is to live in front of our children the way we would like the world to be.” –Graham White
- Stay calm when your kids do incredibly upsetting things?
- Set enforceable limits without yelling, threatening or begging?
- Have chores done without fights or bribes?
- Raise children who were contributing family members, not entitled dictators?
- Avoid power-struggles and minimize arguing?
- Help your children learn from mistakes so they make better choices?
- Make parenting fun, create a more peaceful home, and strengthen your relationships?
- Have time and energy to reflect and make choices in how you interact with your children instead of always reacting?
- Or maybe you’d just like to get out of the door on time each morning with less fuss and upset!
Melissa can help.
Melissa has been working with parents since 2005, offering classes and individual coaching to help parents put connection and ease back into their parenting. Parenting the Love and Logic Way© emphasizes empathy and relationship building as the foundational tools for functional, loving families. While this offers a foundation for Melissa’s classes and coaching, Melissa also brings in her study and practice of Non-Violent Communication, which enhances her integration of empathy and compassion in parenting. Her work with archetypal consulting offers yet another objective lens through which to view the parenting styles that work best with our children. As a Reiki practitioner and a Spiritual Director/Companion, it may come as no surprise that Melissa views parenting as a sacred role. The need for, and power of, building loving parent/child relationships and developing effective parenting techniques, is essential for creating loving, functional adults. At the same time, Melissa insists that parenting should also spring joy. Much day-to-day parenting can and should be fun for the parent and for the child. Her coaching and classes bring much needed humor and compassion into the family dynamic.
Parenting the Love and Logic Way© offers a practical tool kit that helps reduce frustration and increase the fun of parenting, while also offering insight into the emotional and psychological underpinnings of our parenting choices and the recommended techniques. It emphasizes the importance of modeling the attitudes, behaviors and values that we hope our children will embrace and reminds us that good parenting requires congruence between our head and our hearts—loving our children with compassion and empathy, even as we allow them to learn from the consequences of their own choices. Visit the Love and Logic Institute to learn more. Having studied and experimented with many parenting resources over the years, Melissa believes that this combination allows parents to understand better why their behavior may be yielding results they did not anticipate and how to more fully align their parenting with their own values and model those values in their home.
Melissa periodically offers her unique take on the Parenting the Love and Logic Way© classes as a 6-7 week series in the Chamblee area and is also available to facilitate classes for interested groups by request. She also offers coaching sessions, in person in the Atlanta or Haysville area, or by telephone or Zoom. $100 per hour. Free 20-minute introductory session.
For more information or to schedule, Contact Melissa.
"Effective parenting centers around love: love that is not permissive, love that doesn't tolerate disrespect, but also love this is powerful enough to allow kids to make mistakes and permit them to live with the consequences of those mistakes." -Foster W. Cline