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At Proactive Parenting our mission is to give you skills, tips, methods and content to help you create your own roadmap for parenting. We know you’re busy, so we deliver content that keeps up with the pace of your life:
Our Book:
Stop Reacting and Start Responding is broken into 108 ways to transform your parenting skills. It's designed to empower parents to help children reach the best outcome with the least amount of yelling and punishing, while still being firm enough to get the job done. Each topic is only 2 pages long with a quick view at the end, since no parent has time to read an entire chapter to find the information they're looking for. The topics include bedtime, food, cooperation, listening, clinginess, bossiness, school, siblings and grandparents, and more.
The Online Skills Class:
This 4-part series explains the concepts behind why a parent, and a child, behave the way they do.
Week 1 shares how to reduce both a parent and a child's reactions.
Week 2 shares how to switch from punishing to using teaching discipline.
Week 3 exposes the possible triggers that can ignite an outburst or tantrum.
Week 4 helps shift a parent's perspective so they can turn a mistake into a lesson that truly teaches and creates wisdom.
Each week participants receive a detailed handbook with 3 sample conversations and highlights from the class. Each sample conversation focuses on a different age group, preschool, school-age, and teen, so parents can refer back to as the years progress.
The E-seminars:
Each e-seminar shows you how to navigate a specific topic that happens in all families when raising kids from 1-10. Each Audio is short, direct and gets to the heart of the matter so you can move on with your day.
Each offering Proactive Parenting has teaches parents how to stop back talk and arguments, reduce power struggles and yelling and uses teaching discipline in a way that allows you and your child to remember what to do, even in emotionally charged situations.
Parents from over 77 countries around the world have learned how to respond from the heart, the place where the connection to a child lives. They’ve learned to shift from reactive words to words that are empowering and supportive, yet firm enough to clearly communicate boundaries, even when a parent is frustrated, angry and emotionally exhausted.
Do we have all the answers, of course not. Parenting is an individual experience and creates learning for the entire family.
I am a Parent Educator because I really want to help parents understand what's behind their children's behavior. My professors used to say I have the unique ability to see things from a child's point of view. That ability has brought a valuable perspective to the advice and solutions I share. Parents say I’m like a knowledgeable auntie, who's helped thousands of parents stay connected to their child as they teach them about their behavior, instead of repeatedly punishing hoping for different results.
My parenting career began with an education in parenting, early childhood development, and interpersonal dynamics. I have four certifications in parent education and have been a facilitator for the Love and Logic and Redirecting Children's Behavior programs. I’ve taught the Proactive Parenting Approach for the last 15 years and created the Online Skills e-class and Proactive Parenting Audio Seminars.
I am also the author of Stop Reacting and Start Responding a no-nonsense, reality-based book written in the "blog" style, using short concise tips instead of many chapters of theory to help parents tackle the emotions and situations that are produced everyday when raising kids ages 1-10. I’m a weekly contributor to Circle of Moms, Life 360, The Patch, Raising CEO Kids, and a frequent contributor to Ask Moxie.
“Your tips were wonderful, delivered with such warmth, wit and earthiness.”
Linda Obele, President, MOMS Club Scottsdale NW
I smile proudly when I think and speak of my two children, but that hasn’t always been the case. I’ve lived what every parent is living, a real life, parenting real children.
I had my first child when I was 21; I thought I had it all together. I yelled, screamed and punished and secretly felt awful afterwards. I had achieved my immediate goal of stopping the unwanted behavior, but at what cost? One day my 3 yr. old backed away from me, assuming I was going to spank him. I was crushed. I had replaced my beautiful child’s trust in me with fear. I never spanked again.
But now I had a problem. How was I supposed to change behavior without yelling, punishing or spanking?
I found a lot of parenting theory, but the solutions didn't seem to address real everyday life. I needed answers! What I found were good answers, but they were hard to remember when I needed them.
Then I found what I was looking for! There really was another way to talk to and correct my kids.
A way to respond, not react. A way to discuss, not yell. A way to stay connected and teach, versus hoping punishment would do all the work for me.
I wasn’t perfect; neither were my kids. But the everyday situations that came up were handled firmly and respectfully, and didn’t pull us apart as a family. I teach parenting so I can share this knowledge with everyone. That's how Proactive Parenting™ was born.
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