How to Use Parent Coaching Cards
Parent Coaching Cards are a valuable tool for helping children develop the skills they need to find happiness, balance, and success. They are designed to be used by adults and kids to support the acquisition of healthy coping, social, self-control, and executive functioning skills. Take a minute to learn how to use Parent Coaching Cards effectively. Don’t hesitate to contact us for more advice.
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Parents
When family life threatens to spin out of control, Parent Coaching Cards serve as the compass you need to steer your family in the right direction. Maybe you’re juggling countless priorities, such as dinner preparation and homework supervision. Perhaps you’re dealing with a distraught child who won’t let go of a peer’s hurtful and insensitive comments. In these moments, it’s comforting to have access to practical parenting tools. Our Parent Coaching Cards provide you with helpful, corrective, and solution-oriented words to help turn any challenge into a learning opportunity. These childhood development tools are easily accessible (i.e., not buried in a book) and written with language that is enticing and familiar to children. They combine a visually appealing format with a compact message of healthy coping.
Parent Coaching Cards serve as a foundation and jumping-off point for parents and children to discuss typical issues that trigger at-home stress. These valuable discussions provide all family members with the opportunity to reflect on the development skills that lead to a better life. Our instruction packet teaches parents how to “step into the coach’s shoes” to ensure that children know you’re on their side. Kids are much more likely to accept help when their parents use a non-adversarial “coaching” position, as opposed to an anger-inducing “policing” position. By referencing the self-help tools on each card and suggesting the card that best relates to the present situation, parents can reinforce the importance of learning from mistakes, using self-talk to find success, and a wide range of additional self-management skills.
Teachers
Parent Coaching Cards provide teachers with a tool to transform difficult classroom behavior into a lesson on emotional and social skills. Using these cards, teachers reinforce the message that certain behaviors interfere with success at home, at school, and in life. This education tool also helps young people overcome these behaviors by strengthening their “thinking side” skills. Group activities—including scripted skits and roleplay—can also be employed to make sure students are accustomed to using these skills in the real world. Individual assignments, such as maintaining a “coaching journal,” also help students grasp how self-monitoring keeps their “thinking side” in charge.
Counselors
You’re sure to appreciate this portable and practical tool for strengthening the effectiveness of your sessions. In individual psychotherapy treatments—both in-person and virtual—Parent Coaching Cards are a great strategy for addressing skill problems that are commonly seen in children manifesting Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), anxiety disorders, and conduct disorders.