Family Coaching

Family Programs

Parenting Partnerships, Inc. provides family life education
that strengthens and stabilizes family relationships.

Are you debating about attending a parenting workshop or class, but you just can't find the time to make a six or eight week commitment? You may feel you handle most parenting challenges pretty well, but there may be a challenge or two that keeps surfacing and it has you and the rest of your family frustrated. Family Coaching is designed to address parenting challenges that you may feel are unique to your family - challenges that may or may not be addressed in a parenting class.

Family Coaching is for parents that prefer individual support in order to address specific family challenges or those parents who would like to prepare themselves for future parenting tasks. Certified Family Life Educators (CFLEs) use a uniquely designed curriculum to address individual family concerns. Curriculum contains information that identifies parenting challenges in order to minimize power struggles and create a cooperative family environment. Family Coaching provides information on a variety of topics including, but not limited to:

• Balancing family and work
• Teaching children life skills
• Distributing the load - family work
• Communicating effectively with family members
• Teaching children anger management
• Building self-confidence and self-esteem
• Minimizing toddler challenges
• Taking advantage of teachable moments
• Disciplining age appropriately
• Reducing sibling rivalry
• Managing family conflict
• Organizing the family finances
• Helping children develop effective homework and study skills
• Learning about children's developing brain
• Identifying learning styles and their affect on communication
• Parenting the special needs child

Family Coaching is designed to help parents recognize where they are as a family, where they would like to be, and to assist in developing strategies that contribute to a more peaceful, cooperative family environment.

RELATIONSHIP COACHING

A great couple relationship doesn't just happen; it takes a lot of work. Sometimes this "work" feels like a one-way sacrifice and other times it feels easy and effortless. A couple relationship is one in which both mates want to be happy, fulfilled and experience success in their relationship with one another, and yet very few couples know how to achieve that harmony.

Couples who actively seek relationship improvement experience an increase in success over those who do not. They report improved communication, better conflict management, higher dedication to one another, greater emphasis on the positive aspects of a relationship and improved overall relationship quality.

Relationship Coaching can help couples build a healthy, lasting marriage. It can also improve the relationship between those who continue to parent in separate homes. It is an interactive, practical program that includes a step-by-step process that guides couples from impulsive, emotional conflict to intentional, effective communication that improves and strengthens the relationship.

The coaching process includes 8 hours of coaching by appointment. It also includes a workbook. All participants receive a completion certificate once all 8 hours has been completed. All participants are encouraged to complete the workbook and homework assignments between meetings. Coaching is provided by experienced, well trained Certified Family Life Educators.

FAMILY COACHING AND RELATIONSHIP COACHING are offered in 8 hour packages by appointment only. Both can be offered via Skype. Please call 281-874-5890 or 817-573-7969 for more information.