Dear Parent,
Summertime is always the perfect opportunity for you as a parent to prepare for the upcoming school year. Generally people are more relaxed and have time to think through choices and options for the fall. While this includes school, program and activity registrations and buying new clothes and uniforms, this is also an excellent chance to create your family vision for a successful and enjoyable school year.

Parent With Choice can support you in both getting ready and achieving your parenting and family goals by sharing a variety of tools and strategies to accomplish these goals. These methods are proven successful for parents with children of all ages.

“How to have the best parenting year?” A special five hours parenting course:

Sessions can be tailor made to suit your family needs and goals and will also specifically affress the following issues:
1.     How will this coming year be different for your family and you from previous ones?
2.     You will determine and set specific goals for the year to come for each of your children, for yourself and for your family as a whole (These goals can be social, professional, financial, personal growth etc…)
3.     Any specific challenges which may derail you or your family from a smooth course of daily life; for example logistics, academic or social challenges for the kids as well as behavioural and character induced ones.
4.     How your family rules, expectations and consequence chart will look for the next year, and how you will assist your children in following it thus avoiding any behavioural issues.
5.     What your family schedule and your personal one will look like? What is the stress level it induces from 1 to 10 (10 being extremely stressful) and how you can reduce it?
6.     What your support plan looks like: How you will ask for and enlist assistance from relatives, friends and/or professional caregivers in order to facilitate achieving your family goals.

Careful and thoughtful planning will result in your and your family’s success during the upcoming school year. Plwase take the time to answer these questions and thoughts when planning for your year ahead.

With expertise in Parenting Coaching, I would love to support you and your family in having the best year and achieving your family vision.

Please visit my website and my blog to read more about parenting and call me to receive a FREE consultation parent coaching session.

Special offer for the beginning of the school year:
5 sessions of one hour each that will equip you with everything you need to start this year successfully – ONLY $390 (regularly $500)!
Locations: Richmond and Vancouver BC or by phone from any location.
Times: Mornings, afternoons, evenings and weekends sessions are available immidiately and through September.
Special prices for couples and small groups. please call 604-767-1267 for more information.

No more yelling – How to communicate effectively with your child

Workshop description:

Do “time out”s and yelling just not work anymore?
Do you feel like your child’s behaviour is out of control?
Do you want your child to be able to identify, express and shift his/her vast repertoire of feelings in a productive way?
Would you like to discipline your child differently?

Learn several accessible strategies to support your child in changing his/her behaviour. Learn how to elegantly and efficiently shift your child’s behaviour from negative and harmful to positive and resourceful.

Optional Dates and times:

Option 1:

Time: 9am to 11 am at the JCC in Vancouver

Dates: May 20^th, 27^th, June 3^rd, 10^th, 17^th.

Fees: $250 for 5 sessions of 2 hours each.

Option 2:

Time: 12 pm to 2 pm Richmond (off N2 Rd and Francis)

Dates: May 20^th, 27^th, June 3^rd, 10^th, 17^th.

Fees: $250 for 5 sessions of 2 hours each.

Additional workshops

The following workshops will be offered per demand and can be held in Richmond or at the JCC at your convenience. Please contact me if you are interested. The course has a 5 person minimum so you are encouraged to form a group of peers/fanmily/colleagues etc. and contact me at mirit@parentwithchoice.com

Does screen time (TV, Video games and computer) rule your home?
How the whole family can enjoy the teenage years

Complimentary consultation and individual sessions

You are welcome to contact me to receive a 45 minute complimentary consultation session. The aim of this session is for you to experience me as a coach and the transformational power of coaching for you, your children and the entire family.

Start the year with the right state of mind.

Contact me at mirit@parentwithchoice.com or 604 767 1267

Yours,

Mirit Murad, Parent and Life Coach.

A FREE mini-workshop: New ways to effectively communicate with your kids

In this dynamic 90 minutes workshop, I will share several of the most effective yet simple tools parents can use to achieve meaningful and positive communication with their children. I will discuss the importance of creating a family vision, and, more importantly, a plan to achieve the vision, as she shares several highly effective approaches to fostering open, trustful, and respectful communication with your child.

We will discuss several unique strategies and tools for how to:

have great conversations with your kids
Creat a vision for your family
Understand how does your child’s brain learn and unlearn
And more…

For datils on dates and venue please look at: upcoming events.

Full Workshops:“No More Yelling” – A new way to interact with your child

Does “time out” and yelling just not work anymore?

Do you feel like your child’s behavior is out of control?

Do you want your child to be able to identify, express and shift his/her vast repertoire of feelings, in a productive way?

Would you like to discipline your child differently?

Learn several accessible strategies to support your child in changing his/her behavior.

Learn how to elegantly and efficiently shift your child’s behavior from negative and harmful to positive and resourceful.

I will help you:

Clarify the change you want to see when it comes to your children’s behavior.

Uncover hidden challenges and blind spots that could be working against you.

Create effective strategies to deal with discipline issues.

Generate renewed enthusiasm and confidence for cultivating the family dynamics you want to achieve when it comes to your child’s emotional intelligence and behavior.

Change the ways you discipline your children START NOW and receive a FREE Coaching session.

After having gone through Mirit’s program, I now view both my role and my impact as a parent quite differently. I have a better understanding of values are important to me and my family and am better able to choose my battles accordingly. I am becoming a calmer, more understanding parent, and my kids are responding in kind, becoming calmer, more respectful children. Thanks Mirit for your help and your patience.

Shoshana Hudson, 2010, Richmond, BC

I have always thought that parenting is one of the hardest jobs. After participating in Mirit’s “No more Yelling” course series I feel much better equipped to deal with all the challenges that present themselves throughout a day with children. Every parent should take this course as these skills are essential for anyone who wants a happier more content home!

Lisa, 2010, Richmond, BC

Does screen time rule your home?

Do you feel like your kids want to watch TV all the time?
Is video game crudeness and violence getting to you?
Do you worry about what your kids might be exposed to online?

Reduce their TV time by using accessible, practical strategies.

Turn the tables around and learn how to facilitate fun and effective family activities out of rating video games, while empowering your kids to be part of the decision-making process.

Learn how to get involved and participate in their internet experiences while respecting their rights to grow and develop freely.

I will help you:

Clarify the change you want to make when it comes to your children’s TV, video game, and/or computer use.
Uncover hidden challenges and blind spots that could be working against you.
Create a long-term and next-step action plan concerning your kids’ screen time.
Generate renewed enthusiasm and confidence for cultivating the balance you want to achieve when it comes to your kids’ TV, video game, and/or computer use

Make the first step toward reclaiming your child’s attention away from negative TV, computer, and video game relationships and towards healthy interactions START NOW and receive a FREE Coaching session.

Communicate effectively with your child

Do you feel that there is a lack of communication between you and your child?

Do you often feel frustration and/or disappointment when it comes to communicating with your child?

Do you feel your child is lying to you for some reason?

Do you want to motivate your child and can’t seem to find the right words?

Learn proven strategies to enhance communication with your child.

Acquire linguistic tools that will support you in motivating your child to succeed.
I will help you:

Clarify the change you want to see when it comes to communicating with your children.

Uncover habitual linguistic patterns that encourage specific behaviors in your child.

Create an effective communication model for you to use with your child.

Generate renewed confidence in cultivating healthy family communication patterns that nurture openness, trust and honesty between all members.

Change the ways you communicate with your family START NOW and receive a FREE Coaching session.

Please note that all principles of confidentiality will apply and participants need not share their parenting goals with the group unless they choose to.

To book a workshop to your institute please press on the CONTACT US button.

How to have the whole family enjoying the teenage years

Do you dread the teenage years?

Does your teenager talk to you less and less?

Does she come home late at night?

Does she watch TV all day long?

Does she leave her room messy?

Do you feel that you and your teenager are speaking a different language?

Do you ask yourself where did my disciplined, talkative, cooperative child disappear to?

Do you feel helpless and powerless in dealing with your teenager?

If you answered YES to any of these questions, you are invited to participate in the following course:

“How to have the whole family enjoying the teenage years”

This Course is specially designed for parents who would like to communicate and interact with their teenagers in a way that is aligned with their values as parents and as human beings.

If at times you feel helpless, angry and worry about a lack of control regarding your teenager’s behavior or the way you communicate with each other, this is the course that will change it all!

In this comprehensive course each of the following themes and much more will be discussed while you acquire effective and valuables tools and strategies:

Vision: You will be creating your own personal vision and plan for your interactions with your teenager.
State of mind: You will learn how to enter a desired state of mind in challenging situations.
New perspective: You will be introduced to the Star Glasses amazing tool set. These five Ericksonian principles will enable you to have a new and resourceful perspective of your teenager.
Verbal tools and strategies: You will have various strategies and tools for you to communicate with your teenager according to your desired parenting vision and values.
Simple step by step strategies to reinforce attachment and to cope with challenging situations with your teenagers: You will be introduced to ways for you to avoid anger and lost of self control as a parent as well as ways for you to get closer to your teenager and be a part of his life in those formative years.
Role modeling: You will spend time reflecting on the importance of being a positive and inspiring role model for your teenager. And more…

This is a unique opportunity to create and recreate your parenting skills, philosophy and vision in an informal and fun environment.

The course: We offer two formats for this course:

A four week workshop: four sessions of two hours each.
A one day seminar : 9am to 5pm (with a one hour lunch break)

Workshops