We’re wrapping up season two of The Calm Empowered Parent podcast with an exclusive look inside a real-life parent coaching session with Vanessa and Coach Kathryn from the Family Foundation Immersion Program. This episode offers a behind-the-scenes peek at “Side Door Coaching,” where parents address real-life challenges like managing defiant 5-year-olds, navigating peer pressure, and supporting families with multiple neurodivergent diagnoses. These relatable, heartfelt moments might just resonate with what’s happening in your own family.
In this episode, parenting experts Vanessa and Kathryn share actionable strategies to help you handle everyday parenting struggles. Discover tips for encouraging safe, stimulating movement, navigating tricky conversations about media and peer pressure, creating engaging tasks to keep kids focused at school and home, and balancing your availability to meet your children’s needs in a sustainable way. With practical advice, real-world examples, and expert insights, this episode gives you the tools to feel empowered and connected in your parenting journey. Don’t miss it!
Here are the questions and topics covered by Vanessa and Kathryn in a parent coaching session to help you minimize defiance and destructive tendencies, navigate peer pressure, and combat boredom at school.
- Managing 5-year-old defiance with movement exercises and child input into family routines
- Encouraging safe, stimulating movement that isn’t destructive to the house
- Talking to kids and parents about age-appropriate media and peer pressure
- Handling multiple neurodivergent diagnoses within one family
- Creating engaging school tasks for bored or under-stimulated kids.
- Balancing parent availability to meet the needs of multiple children sustainably.
I hope you got some powerful insights from this parent coaching session.
Discover more about our signature yearlong program for parents and caregivers, The Family Foundations Immersion, at https://bit.ly/RORImmersion.
Go to www.thecalmempoweredparent.com to get your free copy of Vanessa’s Calm Parent Strategy Guide, to submit a question, to stay up to date with upcoming events, and to explore how to bring one of Vanessa’s low-cost workshops to your school or group.
Music by Jabari Martin instagram.com/iamstolenartifacts.
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