Through Holistic Parent Coaching, Joan provides a refuge for parents, step-parents, and caregivers to:
- Express pride about their effective parenting;
- Describe frustrations about their less-than-effective parenting;
- Identify successful parenting experiences to build upon as well as challenges that call for meaningful changes;
- Collaborate to plan and implement immediate and long-term parenting based on family values, beliefs, traditions, and aspirations;
- Apply Science-based and Wisdom Approaches;
- Celebrate change toward family harmony.
Just as a vibrant poppy thrives on sunlight to unfold petals revealing inner beauty, so each child thrives on care and love to develop inner brilliance in physical, emotional, cognitive, and ethical dimensions.
Coaching Topics
For Parents, Step-Parents, or Caregivers of Birth – Age 7 Children
• Age & Stage-related Behaviors
• Bedtime and Mealtime: Routines, Traditions, and Rituals
• Challenging Behaviors such as Hitting or Temper Tantrums
• Communication
• Helping Children to Regulate Feelings
• Cozy Kid Spaces: In- and Outdoors
• Reading and Writing Development
• Fun Cooking, Nutrition, and Vitamin N
• Most Generous Interpretation
• Indoor & Outdoor Play and Learning
• Lack of Nearby Family and Friend Communities
• Other Topics Requested by Parents
• Parental Self-Care
• Transitions such as New Baby, Going to School, New Care-Giver
Example of the Sequence of Three-month or Five-month Sessions
- First, identify your values, beliefs, traditions, and aspirations for your child, you, and your family. We celebrate your parenting successes and pinpoint a challenging child behavior you want to address.
- In subsequent sessions, we examine the context and sequence of a challenging child behavior and parent responses. We then determine an immediate pathway of strategies that you apply and practice at home.
- In following sessions, we analyze your child’s and your own responses as you practice the strategies. We may also consider responses of other family members and apply adaptations as needed.
- Ongoing reviews of your home strategy practice are aimed at anchoring new behaviors and discussing what adaptations may be needed. We create a long-term plan to encourage ongoing positive behaviors.
- Topics of sessions may also examine additional challenging behaviors you want to address.
- We celebrate the development of your child’s positive character traits and the evolving family harmony that occurs now and into the future.
JOAN ARMON, PHD – HOLISTIC PARENT COACHING
Children are not things to be molded but are people to be unfolded.
Children are not things to be molded but are people to be unfolded.
The complexities, fast pace, and disconnections from family and other communities leave parents, step-parents, and care-givers without the supportive people and places they need. Too often, there’s no one to talk to about childrearing with its joys, challenges, and best ways to parent.
