Ally Parenting: A Non-Adversarial Approach to Transform Conflict Into Cooperation

By Cynthia J. Klein

Do you have a child who ignores you when you give directions, or argues with you like an attorney trying to change your mind, or refuses to talk to you other than with a few words or grunts? Do you sometimes feel that you and your children are more like adversaries than allies? If you do, then Ally Parenting: A Non-Adversarial Approach to Tr

• Language: English
• Publisher: bridges 2 understanding
• Release date: Apr 26, 2017
• ISBN: 9780998441221

Cynthia J. Klein

Cynthia Klein is a Parenting Coach and Educator, psychology graduate from Berkeley, and a former elementary school teacher. She has been coaching parents since 1994. Cynthia teaches parents privately along with designing and presenting parent education workshops at numerous organizations, schools and businesses. She authored the Middle School Mom column for Parenting on the Peninsula magazine from 2010 to 2016. Cynthia provides support, current parenting information and humorously shares her own experience of raising a daughter. This creates positive change in thoughts and actions leading to their own creation of a cooperative and caring home environment.

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Section 1

The Ally Parenting Approach – Your Parenting Role

1. Ask the Right Questions to Find the Right Parenting Solutions

In my experience as a parenting educator and coach, parents who struggle with finding discipline solutions are often approaching their kids from a controlling perspective. They come to me because they’ve tried every tactic they know to make their kids comply and still haven’t been successful.

They are hoping there’s one more strategy they haven’t learned yet that will fix the problem. They keep looking and hoping until they find me.

First off, let’s review the common questions that parents ask:

How do I control my child so he will stop hitting his brother?

How do I get my teen to do their homework?

Why is my child so lazy, selfish, uncooperative, or ungrateful?

Why doesn’t she try harder?

"Why is my child so difficult? Why do they always