Fertile Ground Parenting: Support for the emotional work of parenting

The biggest thing that no one ever told us about parenting is that it is deeply emotional work. 

So much of our time is spent responding to our kids’ big (and small) feelings, tantrums, and meltdowns. 

Then there’s the emotional work WE need to do in response to the things that come up for us around the ways we weren’t cared for well as children, and how those get activated by our own kids.

And that’s to say nothing of the emotional work it takes to coparent with another person—even when we love and share values with that person.

My job as a parenting coach is to support you with this emotional work of parenting, so that you can have the resources, tools, and capacity to show up for your kids, especially when the chips are down.

Coaching can help you do the work you need to do to manage things like:

• Off-track behaviors like hitting, biting, screaming, defiance, and more;
• Sibling conflicts;
• Separation anxiety;
• Bedtime woes;
• Things needing to be “just so” for your kids;
• Your own feelings of overwhelm, exhaustion, powerlessness, confusion, rage, fear, and more;
• Parenting from a more balanced place, without tipping into either harshness or permissiveness.

Typically I work with families for 3-4 months, during which you will get:

• A clear plan for how to approach the challenges that are arising;
• A full set of simple, effective tools for meeting your particular parenting challenges;
• Access to a library of online video and audio resources to deepen our work together, in addition to 1x1 coaching sessions; and
• A huge dose of support around the places where parenting feels tight, unworkable, baffling, or overwhelming.

I’m trained in two connection-based, brain-based approaches: the Educaring Approach (RIE) and Hand in Hand Parenting, and I've been supporting parents since 2017. I typically work with families who have children between 2ish and 10ish.

Click here to learn more about my approach and what coaching can offer you.

And then sign up for a free 30-minute consultation to see if we're a match.

Warmly,

Caroline Griswold
Fertile Ground Parenting