Meet Maria.
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This talk will focus on how to establish and reinforce effective rules and boundaries with your kids when you are co-parenting, even when your co-parent is not on board.
This talk will start by addressing the importance of maintaining attachment to and connection with your kids. When kids feel connected to and trust parents, they are more willing to collaborate. No trust = no relationship.
This talk will discuss the difference between rules and boundaries, how to set effective rules, how to maintain your own personal boundaries with your kids, and how to teach your kids how to maintain healthy boundaries for themselves.
Key points:
- Focus on connection and attachment first to build an alliance.
- Definition of “rule” and “boundary.”
- Why punishments don’t work and what to do instead.
- How to enforce rules and boundaries without control.
- When parents need to step in (e.g. in situations such as bullying, lack of teacher response, and impulse control issues).
When kids go through divorce, they often feel as if life is out of control and they get no say in what happens to them. It is essential that parents empower kids and invite their collaboration when instituting rules and boundaries. -
Maria is an author, speaker, NLP practitioner, and trauma-informed parenting coach.
After an abusive childhood, when Maria became a parent she found that the key to a healthy parent-child relationship was more positive connections and less dictating and criticizing.
Maria draws on her corporate background and her trauma-informed knowledge to help parents improve their own lives by optimizing productivity, self-advocating, and defeating procrastination, while strengthening their relationship with their children. -