Does your child sometimes confuse you or overwhelm you?  Have you ever asked yourself whether you can parent better? What else can I do?  Why is this happening?  Would you like to enjoy being a parent more?

If you would like to be a better communicator, understand your child more, help your child develop more resilience, or be a calmer parent, you are not alone.   

Parenting is not black and white.  You are not either a good or bad parent.  You want what is best for your child and your family and sometimes it is difficult to know what that is. As children go through different ages and stages, different challenges present themselves. Around us are many experts with just as many opinions about what to do. This can be confusing.

Positive Young Minds promotes positive parenting practices, with a focus on identifying your strengths and values as a parent and helping you develop practical skills to assist you in your parenting journey.  

Take A BOLD approach to parenting

Bringing awareness to parenting is a key to improving your relationship with your child and growing great kids.  

This can be thought of as using A BOLD approach.

• Awareness
• Breathing
• Own it
• Let it be
• Do something

Awareness

• recognising the triggers of your behaviour
• recognising the symptoms of your emotions
• attending to the moment - real listening and engagement
• seeing things as they are, without judgement

Breathing

• putting little commas and full stops into your day helps clarity, and creates distance and perspective.
• taking the time to take some deep breaths when feeling stressed is a great way to manage a situation.

Own it

• whose feeling is it it?  If you are angry, or sad accept it.  If your child is angry, sad, or anxious - that is their feeling.  You stay calm and help them, stay away from being sucked in to their emotional vortex.
• self-regulation of your own actions/reactions
• compassion - using kindness and showing empathy for your own and your child's needs at the time

Let it be

• Live the moment then re-focus on the present.
• Separate the person from the action
• accept your child as they are, not what you hoped they would be

Do something

• Act appropriately to the situation
• Act with kindness 

Parenting groups

Participating in a positive parenting group will encourage you to identify and use your strengths to improve relationships with your children.  It will cover aspects such as mindful parenting, communication, resilience, discipline techniques, managing feelings and emotions and solution finding.

This group is interactive and strictly non-judgemental. It is aimed at parents of school age children.

This program is available to run at your school, community group or at your home with a group of friends. 

Tailored sessions
We can work with you to provide tailored parenting conversation sessions.  A range of topics are available in a range of topics including

• fostering resilience
• living with an anxious child
• mindfulness practice for busy mums
• topic of your choice
• managing parental anger and frustration
• teenagers, technology and tantrums

Parenting Coaching
Would you prefer to strengthen your parenting in individual sessions.  Then individual parenting coaching may be more suitable.  Together we can identify your strengths, values, beliefs and parenting style to work on reaching your parenting goals.

Contact us by email or on 0408 533 515 to discuss the above options.