After many talks, emails and calls from parents, it is clear that parents need to be heard as much as their kids! Parenting is not easy and is often confusing. If you are interested in a chat with Sadie about parenting, read on!

What is Parent Consulting?

I see Parent Consulting as a chance for parents to share concerns, ask questions and discuss their ideas about parenting. It is a supportive relationship that offers parents time to ask specific questions or discuss larger parenting ideas and values. Sometimes it feels like therapy, sometimes professional development, always collaborative. I offer suggestions based on my own values on parenting, which begin with an understanding that children are people and deserving of having their own rights valued within a family. Balanced with this are parent’s rights to feel calm, loving and confident when interacting with their children. I fully believe both of these things are possible and can coexist nicely!

Following much of the teaching philosophy of The Morningside School, and adding in much of my own parenting journey, I offer parents ideas and suggestions for specific day to day challenges as well as potential ways to shift parenting mindsets in order to feel more confident and joyful in parenting.

Why Parent Consulting?

Because parenting is hard! And no one taught us HOW to do it!

After many years of talking with parents after their children graduated from Morningside School, it became clear to me that many parents are yearning for more concrete ideas about how to parent in a way that honors each child as well as supports the parents feeling good about the decisions they make.

Many parents have shared that they wish they had a few more tools in their tool box, either for larger parenting concepts, or for specific acute issues that arise.

Parent Consulting offers a quick chat or a longer relationship that allows parents to access and build on ideas about HOW to parent as well as to think about how they want to BE as parents.