Proud To Be British.Positive Parents = Confident Kids
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Sue Atkins Founder of Positive Parents
An Introduction to Positive Parents = Confident Kids.
Women's Thoughts are pleased to introduce Sue Atkins, founder of Positive Parents. She is an expert in her field which is both challenging and rewarding to us all.
Sue has contributed articles to Women's Thoughts on helping your child through exam results to dealing with empty nests!
If as a parent or guardian, you feel you are in need of advice, you can contact Sue via her website or e-mail address below:-
“Because kids don’t come with a handbook”
There’s no doubt that everyone likes to think of themselves as the model parent, more than capable of bringing up their children to be happy, confident well-balanced adults.
What happens however when you’ve tried everything and it just isn’t quite working out the way you’d planned?
Well, let’s face it; kids are a challenge, so is the job of being a parent, and when the two don’t come with a clear and simple handbook to provide you with all the answers, it’s easy to understand why many parents are seeing the benefit of working with experts like Sue Atkins.
Established in 2005, Surrey based Positive Parents = Confident Kids was founded by Parenting Expert, Author and former Deputy Head teacher Sue Atkins.
Positive Parents is a company dedicated to working closely with parents to offer practical guidance for bringing up happy, confident, well-behaved children from toddler, teen to tearaway.
Sue knows from experience, having supported many parents since the launch of Positive Parents that the most common difficulties encountered can often be resolved when parents achieve a sense of clarity, direction and confidence in their own ability as a parent.
Sue explains “When things aren’t going to plan, it’s easy to focus on what you aren’t managing to achieve with your children, rather than focusing positively on what you are! Changing this attitude is the vital first step in achieving parental success”.
Sue offers support in raising happy, confident, well - behaved children. Helping parents discover their own answers through exploring their own resources and skills and creating options that will work for their own unique family.
Sue offers a number of ways to empower parents to develop their confidence and skills while easily enhancing and fine tuning their family life:
. Workshops
. Talks
. One-2-One coaching sessions for parents
. Telephone coaching sessions
. Group coaching sessions
. Tele - seminars
. Ongoing email support
. Monthly newsletters for parents
. A collection of Parenting Made Easy Toolkits and CDs covering a wide variety of parenting topics from toddlers to teens
. A daily blog
. Free reports and resources on how to raise happy, confident, well-behaved children.
One-2-One Parent Coaching
Put simply, Parent Coaching is a series of conversations with a purpose between Sue and the parents she works with. It is a professional and personal relationship to assist parents in moving forward and creating change easily and effortlessly.
It introduces new ways for parents to think about themselves and their family relationships in a non-judgmental, non-critical and confidential way. Importantly however it’s not all about giving advice or solutions, it’s about helping parents discover their own answers.
Telephone coaching sessions
Conducted in a similar manner to the one-2-one coaching sessions, Sue’s telephone coaching is an effective way for parents to speak with Sue directly and frequently, in a non-judgmental and confidential manner without the necessity to meet face to face.
Parenting Made Easy Workshops
Using professional coaching techniques and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Sue allows parents to unlock the "secret code" to their parenting potential, giving them confidence and skills that they may never have believed possible.
Whether parents are coming along because they are going through some changes in life, are simply experiencing challenges or feel they would just like to discover more effective ways to communicate with or discipline their children, then coming to a Positive Parents workshop will change their life and take their skills to the next level.
Ongoing email support
Sometimes a little support goes a long way, and it is with this in mind that Sue offers an ongoing email coaching service to assist parents as part of their coaching programme. Given the difficulties that every parent encounters day in, day out, questions will inevitably arise from time to time, and when this is the case that little piece of advice and guidance can often prove invaluable in solving the problem.
Newsletters, Publications and Reports
Positive Parents publish a wide variety of literature to assist parents and theirfamilies throughout the coaching programmes. From books including “Raising Happy Children for Dummies” one in the world famous yellow and black ‘Dummies’ series to promote self confidence, clarity and encouragement, to Parenting Made Easy CDs and Toolkits aimed at giving parents simple yet effective techniques and strategies for greater confidence and direction in family life. This combined with a collection of regular newsletters, reports, blogs and articles guarantees that parents receive all the support they need to achieve their desired goals easily.
Working with Sue parents learn new things, experience change, gain clarity and direction in their parenting and have fun along the way which is why so many parents say that working with Sue is a major turning point in their lives.
About Sue Atkins
Sue Atkins is a highly respected and professionally qualified parenting expert.
A former Deputy Head Teacher, Sue qualified for her teaching degree with a B.Ed (Hons) at St Mary’s College, London and then after teaching for 22 years went on to achieve a Diploma in Life Coaching from the world renowned Coaching Academy.
Sue is also qualified as both an NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer, having been taught by Paul McKenna and Dr Richard Bandler the co-founder and creator of NLP.
She is also an Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) parenting specialist. Emotional Freedom Technique is the power therapy of the 21st Century and is a simple and straightforward technique for resolving parenting stress, anger and guilt. EFT provides the code for unlocking nature's healing systems and has been used most recently by Paul McKenna on Sky TV, with whom Sue regularly assists on his ground breaking Easy Weight Loss Seminars in London, Chris Evans on BBC Radio 2 and Whoopi Goldberg who eliminated her 10 year fear of flying through simply using EFT or “tapping.”
She is also on the International Register of Professional Coaches her parenting courses are accredited by the ECI - Europe's Accreditation Body for Coaches and Coach Training Providers.
Sue is also delighted to have been invited to be one of the Judges for The National Family Week “Family of the Year” Competition 2009 and presented the Award to the winning Stevens Family in Regents Park. She has appeared many times on BBC Breakfast TV and on BBC Radio with Jeremy Vine and has been widely published in the British media as well as around the world from Poland to China!
Sue has a regular “Ask the Parent Coach” slot on City Talk Radio Liverpool each week where she answers callers questions live on air and she is also the Parenting Expert for Parenting Australia and Mums Knows Best.
In addition to running one to one parent coaching sessions Sue is also a regular speaker at events and workshops throughout the UK. She is currently working on a series of Beat Bullying Workshops called “Confidence Classes for Kids ~ Helping children feel good about themselves” and is passionate about developing children’s confidence, self esteem and teaching them how to develop a positive mindset.
She is a working mother of two teenage children, she enjoys salsa dancing, particularly round the kitchen table and singing loudly in the car, and she lives on a farm in Surrey with her family, three dogs, and two cats called Pickles and Oscar!
For further information on Sue Atkins and Positive Parents = Confident Kids then please visit her website at http://www.positive-parents.com/ and join her Positive Parents Club where you will be able to read her wide variety of expert articles and blogs and download her free resources. http://www.positive-parentsclub.com/
To arrange media contributions/comment from Sue please contact:Sue Atkins
Director
T: 01342 833355
M: 07740 622769
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