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Parent Express for 03-Feb-2010
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Feb
2010 As we approach the Valentine's Day holiday, our thoughts often focus on those we love and sometimes those we've lost. This month's Parent Express includes an article written by Kay Kimball Gruder, PCI Certified Parent Coach®, titled "Dare to Share: Parenting Through Our Stories," which encourages parents to authentically use their personal stories to help their children navigate through the many situations life presents. Sharing these stories, from the heart, helps parents and the children they love relate to one another in a way that lecturing simply cannot. Also in this issue, Laureen Chang, PCI Certified Parent Coach®, shares with us a touching poem she wrote in memory of her father. This poem illustrates the wonderful lessons and legacy left behind for us by those we have loved and lost. Also, just in time for spring Parent/Teacher conferences, an article titled "Successful Parent Conferences" by Rhonda Moskowitz, PCI Certified Parent Coach®, helps parents focus on the true goal of Parent/Teacher conferences, setting the stage for the most productive use of both the parents' and teachers' time. I hope to see you soon at an upcoming event! Gloria DeGaetano, Founder and CEO
"Gloria, words can't express how thrilled I am to have found The PCI™ and this amazing program. Thank you for all you do to keep The PCI™ moving forward and onward. Your efforts, sacrifices, and vision continue to bless families within The PCI™ and those we coach…"
Apply now to receive a $900.00 tuition discount for March start! (Spaces are limited. The tuition discount applies while spaces are still available.) Thank you to all those who are calling to apply to The PCI™! Our phones are very busy these days. We are now accepting applications for Spring Quarter. Review our program dates here, including information on early application discounts. Word is getting out about our innovative, energizing, and highly practical Parent Coach Certification® Training. Because of the overwhelming response, we highly encourage you not to delay in submitting your application for spring start. By planning ahead, you will be assured of a spot if accepted into the program, after the enrollment process is complete. Please send in the basic application as the first step. Download the application here. Once we receive this document, we will contact you for a phone interview. Transcripts and reference letters can follow the basic application by a few weeks. Questions? Please call (425) 401-1519 or email info@thepci.org. Please Note: Phone classes are in the evening time, usually at 5PM or 6PM (Pacific Time) to accommodate the work schedules of our students. Listen to an audio message from Gloria DeGaetano to learn about the five advantages of Parent Coach Certification®.
"…I have experienced great personal growth through my year of working to become certified as a parent coach. I have seen many changes in myself, in my family dynamics and in my supervisory role in my work life. These changes can be directly traced to my studies and practice of the principles and vision of the Parent Coaching Institute. I have come to believe that the world can be changed, and will be changed, by the practice of these principles and through the coaching relationship."
Working with a parent coach who has received Parent Coach Certification® through The PCI™ is giving yourself a valuable gift as well as a sound investment in your family's future. PCI Certified Parent Coaches® are caring, thoughtful professionals with years of experience working with parents. They have successfully completed The PCI™ Parent Coach Certification® Training Program—a comprehensive academic, one-year, graduate-level program in collaboration with Seattle Pacific University. Through a series of coaching conversations that can be either by telephone or in-person, PCI Certified Parent Coaches® help you re-discover your dreams and design your life for more joy and satisfaction. To find a PCI Certified Parent Coach® in your area, please click here or call (425) 401-1519 for a referral to a PCI Certified Parent Coach® selected especially for you. 
Visit www.parentappreciationradio.com to listen to programs featuring PCI Certified Parent Coaches® and other experts from around the country discussing topics of interest to moms and dads. Programs are available as podcasts. Listeners can download individual episodes directly, listen to them from this site using a Web browser, or access them via the iTunes podcast directory. iTunes subscribers will automatically pick up new episodes as they become available!
"An Ode to My Father,"
by PCI Certified Parent Coach®, Laureen Chang in beautiful memory of her father, T.Y. Chang  Successful Parent Conferences 
by Rhonda Moskowitz, M.A.,
Each school year brings with it certain rituals: new sneakers in a larger size (who knew feet could grow so fast?), new school supplies (wow-they use calculators in kindergarten now!) and Parent/Teacher conferences. It doesn't matter if your child is a kindergartener or a senior in high school, at least once a year you will receive an invitation to participate in a Parent/Teacher conference. Based on your experiences in school you may have mixed feelings about this particular ritual. As a parent, though, it's a great opportunity to spend time with the other adults who are supporting your child on a daily basis. What is the proper goal of this meeting? To hear how your student is doing? To learn about problems? Actually, neither. It's bridge building. That's right, a Parent/Teacher conference is really a construction project. The goal is to partner with the teacher so that together parent and teacher can build the supports the child needs to be successful in school. Conferences are very time limited as teachers try to meet with every parent. To use your time effectively, you need to have a plan. What do you want to accomplish during this conference and how will you do it?
Dare To Share: Parenting Through Our Stories 
by Kay Kimball Gruder
"If you don't know the trees you may be lost in the forest, but if you don't know the stories you may be lost in life." When was the last time you shared a story with your child about a personal success, failure or disappointment? If you have to stop and think it has probably been too long. We all have stories to share, and it is through our stories that we transmit lessons and connect with our children via our emotions, choices and actions. For our children, whether they are 9 or 19 years of age, stories provide evidence and support to the life lessons that we desire to share. Our stories engage them in the details of how we solved a particular problem, overcame a challenge, dealt with an emotional hardship, or dove into an unknown experience. Sharing personal stories takes time, and in the hurried lives that we often lead the opportunities to incorporate stories get replaced by what I call the "should have/could have" approach to parenting. This approach most commonly sounds like, "You should have studied more" or "You should have gone to bed earlier and you could have gotten up on time." This is one way to give advice, but it will often fall on deaf ears. So while this approach may seem efficient in addressing a situation in the moment, it is not particularly effective long-term. Ideally we want to be sure that we use a mix of strategies to convey the advice and guidance that we wish to impart on our children. What makes a good story? |
Follow The PCI™ on Twitter!
Interview with Gloria DeGaetano
PCI™ Launches House Talks
Self-Aware Parent Blog The new blog titled Self-Aware Parent, written by Cathy Cassani Adams and hosted by Chicago Parent, contains Cathy's personal parenting stories and lessons learned along the parenting journey. Cathy is a PCI Certified Parent Coach® and author of The Self Aware Parent: 19 Lessons for Growing with Your Children.
Free Booster Kit for New Parents
Gloria DeGaetano to Speak in China
Getting Kids to Cooperate and Become Team Players
February 6, 2010, 8:00 AM
Friday, March 5, 2010
PCI™ Students and Graduates Will Gather in Bellevue, WA on March 4-6, 2010 to Collaborate and Participate in Continuing Education Activities PCI™ Students and Graduates Will Gather in Chicago, IL on February 5, 2010 to Network and Collaborate 
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Back issues of Parent Express are available on the PCI Web site. There you can read articles by Gloria DeGaetano and PCI Certified Parent Coaches®, and easily send past issues to friends and colleagues via e-mail.
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This issue of Parent Express was originally published February 3, 2010. Some content, contact information, and links may be out of date, and the conversion from the original email edition may introduce formatting inconsistencies.
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