Is it possible to parent with patience and compassion without letting your kid turn into an entitled little brat?
The critics of gentle parenting would contend that "today's kids" lack discipline, boundaries, and respect for authority. Teachers complain of kids talking back or ignoring them. Mental health issues among youth appear to be at an all-time high. What is going on? Is taking our children's feelings into account turning them into little monsters? If this is all so "right", why does it look like it's all going so "wrong"? How do we find clarity and confidence in our parenting approach when there seems to be so much conflicting information?
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I've been there and I get it.
On Monday, you're already running 10 minutes late to school in the morning when the 3-year-old decides she hates wearing shoes and refuses to put them on. You don't want to yell, but who has time to address the deeper emotions NOW??
Tuesday rolls around and the principal calls (yet again) and by now, you know the number, and your heart sinks as you ask yourself, "What did he do this time?"
On Wednesday evening, your spouse rolls his eyes at you when the 10-year old insists he is "too tired" to do his homework, as though to say "See? I told you this gentle parenting stuff doesn't work."
By Thursday, the house you made everyone clean up on Sunday (after much resistance and more than one emotional breakdown) is somehow more chaotic than it was on Saturday and you're ready to burn it all down, take the kids to Tibet, and become a family of Buddhist monks just to catch a break.
If you've experienced any of that in the last week, I bet you're ready for life to feel more like this...
You CAN raise emotionally intelligent and self-aware humans without becoming a "gentle parent" doormat
Foundations of
Empowered Parenting
This course is designed carefully and intentionally to help you make real, transformative change in your family through YOU as a parent and a leader.
About Your Coach, Janelle
Janelle has two decades of experience in adult education. She has a deep understanding of how adults learn and integrate new skills into their lives.
After becoming a professional certified mediator in early 2018, Janelle began facilitating mediations for separating parents and parents trying to make important decisions for their families in the midst of big changes.
In 2022 Janelle graduated the Jai Institute for Parenting with a Master Parent Coach Certification.
She is now on a mission to help conscientious parents access their inner authority and confidently lead their families with patience and compassion.
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Education & Coaching Calls on High-Urgency Topics
Janelle will lead SIX live workshops to focus in on topics that matter most to YOU
Students-Only Online Community and Q&A space
Facebook group, monitored regularly to be able to ask questions and connect with one another
It really does take a village. Foundations of Empowered Parenting can be your parenting lifeline.
This course with integrated coaching support via live group calls will provide you with 1) Education you need to be at the top of your game as an informed, aware and intentional parent, 2) Support- because it all makes perfect sense until it doesn't- Janelle is here to help you apply what you're learning and hold your hand through the inevitable messiness of transforming your family life and 3) Learning Community- we all have experiences, perspectives and strengths to offer one another, so we have this special space to come together and grow in wisdom as we grow in personal clarity and confidence.
Live Coaching Calls on High-Urgency Topics
Join us for live calls every other week where you can engage, ask questions, share your ideas and gain clarity around these very important modern-day parenting challenges. Join all or just show up for the ones that are most important to YOU. Can't wait to see you there!
Bullying
Whether you are worried your child might be a bully, your child is a victim of bullying or maybe they are navigating being a witness to it, we will cover what bullying really is, what's underneath it and how to help our kids navigate this from all different angles.
Re-Discovering Play and Parenting Joy
Do you ever feel like parenting feels like trying to manage a work group, but your employees are unskilled and incompetent in almost everything you need them to do? Sometimes parenting can feel more like work than relationship and we wonder how we do it and even WHY. But children are an absolute blessing that can bring us back to the essence of ourselves and connect us to joy that we might have lost pieces of along the way. Join us to discover HOW to find your joy in parenting again no matter how many bills are waiting to be paid or dishes are stacked in the sink. Inevitable life stress does not have to keep you from ENJOYING parenthood a day longer.
Sibling Squabbles
You thought you were giving them their best friend for life but sometimes it seems instead like you've dropped a soldier in hostile territory? Your kids can't seem to get along for more than two minutes at a time. You aren't getting paid enough to play professional 24/7 referee. BUT you also don't want to ignore it and leave them to fight it out themselves, since the dominant one is bound to win and you want home to be safe for EVERYONE, not just the biggest, loudest and most stubborn. Do sibling conflicts have any upside? And how can we shift these battles so we can experience more peace in our homes (and everywhere we take our kiddos)?
Social Media & Mental Health
How do we take an active role as parents around screen time and social media influences, but do so from a place of integrity (when we ourselves are struggling with managing our own use) and from a place of reliable, science-based information rather than acting out of fear of the new and unknown? We will address these questions and more with a deep dive into the modern world struggles most of our parents never had to deal with raising us.
Peaceful Co-Parenting
Hard for you and a co-parent to see eye-t0-eye? Do you find yourself disagreeing about how to raise your children? You clearly have different values and priorities, so how will your children get clear messages about how to behave and what kind of people to be? Attempts to have conversations and make decisions are toxic at worst and clunky at best, so what to do? We will discuss all this and more so you can move forward and co-parent with more clarity, confidence and peace.
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What else do you want to talk about? Getting teens to open up to you? Eliciting cooperation with household chores? Parenting kids with special needs? Let's talk about whatever is most relevant and important to you right now.
10 Pillars of Empowered Parenting Preview
Here are the three of the pillars that we will cover in Week 2. Sign up to learn the rest 
Intentional and Reflective
THE 2nd PILLAR
Communicate to Connect
THE 7TH PILLAR
Boundaries from Family Values
THE 9TH PILLAR
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what you need to know about my values and appraoch
children are Human (just like us)
It's odd how we treat children sometimes, isn't it? We get frustrated if they protest at doing something they don't want to. We don't want them to complain or ask for "too much." We don't want them to act too shy and stand-offish or too overwhelming and in your face-ish. We expect them to prioritize work over play.
BUT don't we protest about things we don't want to do (Hello- procrastination!)
Don't we have an insatiable appetite for more and more of whatever we happen to love?
Don't we range in personality types, values, desires, goals, dreams, and attitudes?
And don't we long for (and get grumpy if we go too long without) a bit of fun to help us get through the less fun stuff?
Children are humans, just like us, with all the messiness of disappointment, sadness, joy, and longing that implies. We can access compassion for ourselves and for them simultaneously.
Every day is a chance to learn
Rather than looking at days as "good" and "bad" based on how many things go according to how we hope, we can take out the judgment and see every experience, absolutely every one, as a chance to learn. Sometimes, we are learning lessons for what works or doesn't work to get the result we want. Sometimes we are simply learning to lean into hard feelings and be with ourselves and our kids through difficult moments.
obedience is not the ultimate metric of parenting success
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FAQ
Yes and yes! If you're not able to make the calls you can bring your questions into the Facebook group at any time, and all the classes will be recorded and posted inside your student hub page.
If your co-parent is also interested in enrolling in this class, that's great! Please reach out to me for information on how they can enroll alongside you at a discounted rate: janelle@connectedcoparenting.com
As much as I'd love to run this program ever year, I can't guarantee that it will be available in the future.
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