About Me

I am a parent coach. I received my MSW from Simmons School of Social Work and have been a licensed social worker practicing in the greater Boston area for over 20 years. My dream has always been to work with parents on the most important job in their lives. In my practice and in my blog I want parents to be heard, supported and informed in order to feel empowered to be effective as parents. I love helping parents find joy and mastery in their parenting.


"Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him" - Dr. Henker

Monday, December 31, 2012

Welcome Parents on the Edge!

I have the best job in the world-helping parents with the hardest job in the world, parenting effectively and when possible joyfully and developing the tools to understand who their child is, how to communicate with them, how to handle the bumps in the road along the way, how to help them reach their potential, and how to do it in an atmosphere where both the parents and children can thrive.

In this blog I would like to explore ideas parents can use to understand their children developmentally, strategies for improving communication, the importance of and how to set limits, and how to keep yourself sane while actually doing the work of parenting!

I want to share thoughts from my own experience as a parent, from being part of a community of friends who have parented, from working with parents on a professional basis, from books I have read, am reading and will read in the future.  I want to stress the importance of:
  • keeping a sense of humor through it all
  • talking with other parents
  • when you love your child, let them know that and provide for their basic needs, all the rest is gravy
  • perfection is both unattainable and profoundly undesirable
  • when you are overwhelmed its okay to ask for help, and there are good sources for that help out there.
I am very passionate about parenting.  I would like this blog to be a forum for sharing that passion, and continuing the ongoing dialogue on how we can best provide for our children’s needs, help them develop the foundation to thrive as they grow up and enter adulthood, and best support parents in that task.