About Parent Mentoring
Do you find yourself struggling with the challenges of raising your kids?
Are you or your children regularly in a state of overwhelm, disregulated, or isolated?
Do you find yourself yelling and fighting with your children?
Are your children hiding in their rooms or leaving the house to be with friends and ignoring schoolwork?
Do you ever wish parenting was easier, more joyful?
Do you ever wonder how you and your co-parent can find common ground on how to handle parenting situations?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are not the only parent feeling the tension!
And, our children feel it too.
No one should have to handle it alone.
Parenting is one of the hardest jobs around! We are not given manuals. Your child’s behaviors are being labeled by schools, doctors, and other authorities as disruptive, combative, or lazy and they’ve lumped our parenting skills into being part of the problem. While you’ve read the handbooks, it seems nothing is working with your children. You’ve become overwhelmed, could use a shoulder to lean on and solid, yet flexible, advice on what to try next.
Through private, individualized mentoring, Mira assists parents in navigating the path toward a more regulated, connected and hopeful family and home because depression and anxiety do not just “go away,” executive functions skills are not learned through osmosis, and regulatory skills do not magically develop.
What is the Role of a Parent Mentor for parents?
A parent mentor helps guide you to a more comfortable emotional state. By starting with yourself, you impact your children and your family.
A parent mentor provides customized support and information based on each of the individual needs within the family.
A parent mentor provides knowledge about child development (including social, emotional and brain development of children).
A parent mentor supports effective and fresh parenting principles to assist in better understanding a child’s behavior while taking into consideration their varying stages of development and honoring their exceptional profile.
A parent mentor helps clarify how to work through arduous topics such as routines, transitions (for example, getting out the door in the morning and bedtime), power struggles, temper tantrums, sibling rivalry, parental anger, discipline, boundary setting, homework challenges, executive dysfunction, “disrespectful” behavior, and more.
A parent mentor reminds families of their strengths and love while identifying what is not working to help teach the family to work collaboratively and proactively, to be empathetic with each other, and ultimately to create a plan to address the challenging issues at hand.
Parent mentoring offers an opportunity to learn how acceptance of our children, as they are, while continuing to guide them and teach them, honors their and your true selves. Parenting theories and developmental research goes only so far. Understanding twice exceptional people, the asynchrony and anxiety inherent with that, and the intrinsic intelligence and creativity of your child will help you more calmly and confidently parent your children, while creating a loving attachment within your family.
To schedule a session, please contact Mira (she/her)
cell: 312.320.9544
email: mduncan@roughdraftsparenting.com