4. Parenting Strong-Willed Kids with Mary Van Geffen
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Come join this conversation with parenting coach, Mary Van Geffen, and ditch your overwhelm and learn how to be a calm parent to your strong-willed & spicy children! We explore the healthy habit of Embodying Motherhood: the skill of using your body to stay calm and to generate more cooperation from your child will make your parenting journey easier and way more joyful! In this episode you’ll learn:
How & why to find presence in your body through a mini meditation.
How to change the posture of your parenting (be a queen!).
What is “no butt parenting” and the 2 x 2 x 2 method to connect with your child.
How the phase of your cycle affects your parenting.
Mary Van Geffen Bio:
Mary Van Geffen is an international parenting coach for overwhelmed moms of strong-willed & spicy children. Based in Southern California, Mary helps moms gain confidence to choose gentle, respectful parenting especially if they weren’t raised that way. Mary is a certified Simplicity Parenting Counselor and a Co-Active Professional Coach. She works one-on-one with moms over the phone to shift their parenting approach so they can:
Enjoy being with their children
Get more cooperation and less “No’s” from their children
Stay calm and in control of themselves
Be firm and follow through
Trust themselves and their decisions
Mary speaks at schools and mom groups all over So Cal and provides daily parenting tips and tricks on Instagram.
Links & Resources:
Find Mary on Instagram.
Schedule your complimentary 30-minute coaching session with Mary.
Consider joining Mary’s Parenting Siblings School to:
Treat jealousy, constant bickering, mean words & tattling with confidence.
End the "you love her more!" complaint once and for all.
Explore the blueprint for positive conflict resolution.
Help kids set boundaries & hear each other's point of view even when skills, ages and personalities are very different.
Become the calmest one in the room.
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