Lesson Category: Parenting Essentials

Co-parenting is often a challenge for parents living apart. The impact of constant stress and arguments can be exhausting. This course will help you recognize factors that interfere with cooperative co-parenting and provide you with concrete strategies to reduce conflict. 

By the end of this live online class parents will be able to:

• Identify factors that keep conflict going
• Identify and revise harmful conflict cycles
• Develop a successful co-parenting plan
• Apply skills to help you manage co-parenting stress
• Apply effective strategies to manage conflict

Each of us grows up in a unique family and when we come together as a couple, we don’t usually talk about our parenting beliefs until children are actually on the scene. The more intentional parents are about sharing their stories and values with each other, the more likely it is that you can agree on parenting approaches.  

Mothers often parent in ways that are different from fathers and those differences can be helpful to children, but only if you recognize the strengths of each other’s approaches.. “Marshmallows” often join with “Generals” because in some ways they need each other. But over time your differences can become more dramatic and problematic.  

This class will provide concrete tools to conduct productive conversations and respectfully reach some agreements to avoid conflict and decrease the polarization of parenting styles.

There can be a fine line between encouraging healthy habits in our children and creating negative thoughts on body image and self-perception. We want the best for our children, but often forget that they are watching how we treat ourselves and model their own behaviors after that.  

Join us for this quick, practical class, where we will: 

• Discover ways to speak about our bodies that encourage body positivity for our children 
• Discuss the reasons why we need to model healthy behaviors for our children  
• Develop a plan to include quick healthy practices into your daily life and encourage healthy habits in your children without adding pressure or negative connotations. 

We parents of young children have too much to do and not enough time to do it. So certain things fall off the to-do list, and fitness is usually one of the first to go. At the same time, we know deep down that we are more patient and positive when we take better care of ourselves. 

After this class, parents will be able to 

• Find practical strategies for self care
• Discover easy ways to fit self care into a busy schedule
• Create a simple plan to increase self care moving forward