Parenting Support
Support for being your child’s Appreciator, Anchor, Protector & Guide from baby to teen
As parents, we have 4 roles to fill with our children:
We are their Appreciators- They need us to delight in them, want to connect with them and be their biggest fans.
We are their Anchors- They need us to help regulate them as they navigate the many ups and downs of growing.
We are their Protectors-They need us to advocate for them by setting limits, with them and the world on their behalf.
We are their Guides- They need the positive influence of our values, beliefs, and hopes for them and ourselves.
Each of these 4 roles are vital for our children, but it’s not so easy to maintain our ability to be each role when our emotional tension and strained parent-child relationship impacts our judgement and capacity . Learning to be in relationship with our child is a journey!
As a mother, educator, and certified parenting instructor I am passionate about helping parents address the needs in their families. With both my personal experience as a mother and my long-time work supporting children and families by addressing mindset, utilizing connection strategies, and incorporating symbolic ways of navigating developmental milestones, I help families move through relationship difficulties into a place of nurturing connection.
My parenting work, based on the Hand in Hand Parenting approach, comes with these assumptions:
When children feel connected, they learn readily, love easily, and become caring leaders among their peers. A healthy parent-child connection enables a child to fully access their intelligence and ability.
When parents feel connected with their children and with other parents, they have greater success at solving problems at the heart of family and community life. Parenting becomes more fun, and more rewarding.
When children’s behavior goes “off track,” they are asking for closeness, connection and understanding. Parents can use the tools of Special Time, Playlistening, Setting Limits or Staylistening to rebuild the connection with their children. The child offloads stress, reconnects, and can then make thoughtful decisions and learn from their experience.
When emotional stress sends parents' behavior "off track," they need the support of a listener who appreciates how much they care and how hard they try. Parents need the safety to offload feelings that interfere with their ability to guide their children with love and sensible limits, kindly held.
“Listening to feelings can mend deep rifts between parent and child.
Listening to children with love relieves their hearts, and most often, clears their behavior as well.”
I would be honored to support your Parenting.
One on one Support
Parenting Support Packages
Community Classes and Workshops
virtual (worldwide) and in-person (Los Angeles) available
Parenting Support Packages
These packages are for parents with children of any age. The goal is to build your capacity for being your child’s Appreciator, Anchor, Protector and Guide by addressing your parenting mind, heart and spirit. We will balance the potent work of dumping out emotional tension related to parenting with uncovering the mindset about childhood and adolescence that will move you towards the harmony you desire in your home. With the skillful addition of connection strategies and symbolic ways of processing parenthood, you will gain a new level of confidence in your parenting to help your child recover from the many bumps and scrapes of growing and create a relationship with them that will be the “super protective factor” for them as they age.
To connect deeply, our first session will be 90 minutes. The rest are 60 minutes.
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Your experience of conception, pregnancy, birth or the postpartum time with your child that may be impacting your self image and connection with your child
Mindsets that will help bring ease and connection to your parenting
Concrete strategies for building, nurturing and repairing your relationship with your child which include how to manage difficult behavior, listening to children to help them recover from emotional distress, setting effective limits and creating connection plans
How to clear the emotional tension that gets in the way of being the parent you want and need to be
Sticky and recurring parenting challenges
Tools for building your ongoing parental support
Symbolic ways of celebrating milestones in your child's life
With each package of 3, 6 or 12 sessions, you get:
Notes after each session and resource lists of books, articles, videos and podcasts
Optional S.O.S. calls: real-time phone calls before, during or after a challenging time (I keep track of the time we spend together and count them towards a session).
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“After working with Magdalena I can parent from within my heart, with all of myself, which means my parenting is less forced, easier, freer, lighter, more clear, confident, calm, authentic & whole. I have tools, strategies and ideas of things to try - I don’t feel lost anymore. And, my children are happier, more light hearted, emotionally healthier and we all have more fun together and struggle less.”
“Magdalena serves as a sounding board, a guide, and a positive reinforcer to me as the mother of a teen. She has helped me relax when it comes to the anxiety and angst of raising a teen boy and gain the comfort and confidence to accept that my relationship with my son is something to be accepted and celebrated for what it is and can be. It may have ups and downs, but I take the long view now — and as a result our relationship is much more relaxed and positive.”
“We are grateful to Magdalena for her caring, listening and non-judgmental approach. She was very responsive to our parenting emergencies and a high-anxiety situation. Magdalena’s wisdom and support helped us be kinder and more loving humans with our kids and ourselves. We all have a better relationship and get to enjoy each other’s company.”
“It was important to me to find connection with other parents. I found out that I wasn’t the only boat sailing in these uncharted waters, but that we’re a fleet of boats heading in the same direction and dealing with the same weather conditions. Now I have tools for being with my children that are even helping me at work!”
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