Articles

Teen Dreams-5 Key Questions

by Barbara McRae, MCC


Supporting Your Teen In Trouble

By Carol Satterlee


Teaching Sign Language to Babies

By Barbara Desmarais


Parenting Styles and Divorced Households

By Ellen Schuster-Nastir


Top 10 Qualities of Successful Parent-Teen Relationships

By Barbara McRae, MCC


A Connected Family Requires Respect

By Carol Satterlee


Divorce, Children and a Summer Divided

By Ellen Schuster-Nastir, M.Ed., CPCC.


How Can I Stop My Children From Fighting?

By Barbara Desmarais

Inspiration

LAUGH!

Don’t take life too seriously

Take time every day to have some
     FUN!

Hug your kids

Tell your kids how special they are

Compliment them!

Go for a walk together

Bike Ride

Keep in touch with loved ones

When someone passes through
     your life, keep a part of them nearby

 

 


 

 

 

 

Family Coaches

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Parent/Teen Coach, Barbara McRae, MCC

Nationally known master certified coach, parent/teen expert, bestselling author, COTA radio host, syndicated columnist, Barbara McRae, specializes in helping time-crunched parents to positively impact teens today and beyond. Barbara’s unique “teen advice parenting” approach appears regularly online, in print, and in the media. Due to the effectiveness of parent-teen coaching, parents smoothly develop their teens into resourceful and responsible adults. Ms. McRae was recently honored by The White House for her significant contribution to the Colorado Regional Conference on Helping America’s Youth. She may be contacted via email at Barbara@teenfrontier.com. You can learn more about Barb at www.teenfrontier.com.

 

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Family Relationship Coach, Carol Satterlee

Carol Satterlee, CPC is a certified coach whose focus has always been about relationships. Her belief is at the core of everyone’s life is the quality of his or her relationships. And, ultimately, EVERYTHING in life is a relationship; the most important being the one you have with yourself. Her coaching focuses on guiding clients through life challenges and showing how the struggle itself can become catalysts to discoveries and insights. Objectivity is one of the greatest challenges for family members to provide one another. But it is the key to tending to and mending relationships. Carol is from California, happily married and has two teenagers who have been her primary teachers of life, love and joy. Carol’s life motto: “Live your life with no regrets.” Learn about her at www.strengthwithin.com 

and her blog: http://blog.strengthwithin.com/.

 

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Divorce/Remarriage/Stepparenting Coach, Ellen Schuster-Nastir

Ellen Schuster-Nastir, M.Ed., CPCC, is a certified professional life coach with advanced training in Organizational and Relationship Systems.  She is co-author of When Divorce Crosses Your Mind . . . What You Need to Know and contributed to creating a class for divorcing parents entitled Building a Successful Parenting Plan for Children. This program is approved by the Hillsborough County Court System in Florida.  Ellen is happily remarried, mom to two and bonus mom to one. Visit her website www.focusbydesign.com for a listing of many different classes offered and group coaching available. She can be reached at 813-968-8597.

 

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Parenting and Life Coach,

Barbara Desmarais

For over 18 years, Barbara has been working with parents providing powerful and effective discipline tools that do not include yelling, nagging or spanking. Since 2002, she has been coaching parents privately both in person and over the phone. She has been featured several times in Canada’s national parenting magazine “Today’s Parent” and has articles published on many family related websites. She also has an extensive background in American Sign Language so her services are provided to deaf and hearing parents as well as to parents of deaf and hard-of-hearing children. Aside from her work as a parenting coach, she teaches Sign Language to babies. www.theparentingcoach.com

 

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