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It's happened to every loving, well-read, socially conscious, normal, well-meaning, good intentioned parent out there. Life takes its toll on you, and the stress causes you to lose it with your child!
Proactive Parenting shows you how to respond from your heart, the place where your connection to your child lives. We show you how to adjust the words you're using so they're empowering and supportive, yet firm enough to clearly communicate your boundaries, even when you're frustrated, angry and emotionally exhausted.
Take a healthy dose of mom, mix it with an education in parent education and sprinkle with a dash of a seekers spirit, and you have Sharon Silver.
She's the author of Stop Reacting and Start Responding, founder of Proactive Parenting, Proactive Parenting (dot) NET and a former online radio & TV host.
Sharon’s empowering and realistic perspective was created from her education in parenting & early childhood development and four certifications in parenting. She's been a Parent Educator for 20 years, facilitated the Love and Logic & Redirecting Children’s Behavior programs as well as the Proactive Parenting Approach, and studied interpersonal dynamics for the last 30 years.
Sharon is also a weekly contributor to Circle of Moms, Life360, Raising CEO Kids, and Tots to tweens, and is a frequent contributor to Ask Moxie.
Balance is the elusive goal parents strive for these days, but with the pace of daily life it seems impossible to attain. Proactive Parenting has created resources for parents that use a new a definition of balance, one that's extremely do-able, even when parents are stressed.
Proactive Parenting's Coaching Audios, book and private coaching use empowering and supportive words that are firm enough to correct a child and teach them about their behavior versus relying on yelling and punishment. Which reduces reactions and energizes, instead of depletes, parents when correcting behavior.
Proactive Parenting offers Corporate Perks programs for working parents, seminars for schools around the country, Coaching Audios online, the Stop Reacting book for those who like to have information in their hands, articles filled with tips for everyone to read, and private coaching for those who want a coach to help them work things through. Every thing we do focuses on the daily issues parents face raising children ages 1-10.
“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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