Andrea Danneker, M.A.
Parent Coaching, Workshops, Home Visits

Simplicity Parenting

Simplicity Parenting with Andrea

Simplicity Parenting offers a simple, orderly, and effective pathway to simplify in four realms at home, which reduces stress on children and their parents, and allows room for connection, creativity and relaxation

These four realms for simplifying are:

1. Environment: Uncluttering too much stuff at home including toys, books, and clothes. This includes simplifying food.

2. Rhythm: Increasing predictability by introducing rhythm moments in a family's day, week, and year to allow room for connection and calm.

3. Scheduling: Slowing down schedules and finding balance in a child's life between down time, creative time, and busy time.

4. Filtering Out Information: Reducing the influence of adult concerns, media, and consumerism on children and families to increase resiliency as well as social and emotional intelligence. Making sure our children are exposed to what is true, kind, and necessary for their developmental stage.

Parents who take steps along this pathway to simplify, find that their children:

Are calmer and happier

Do better socially and emotionally

Are more focused at school

Find it easier to comply with family rules

Become less picky eaters

These parents also find that they themselves:

Have a clearer picture of what they value as parents
Are more united with each other in their parenting
Have more time and energy for connection, relaxation, and fun

Simplicity Parenting Groups led by Andrea

The group experience is:

4 to 14 participants, 7 sessions over 14 weeks
An effective blend of support, learning, refleciton, and practice
Using new understanding of how change happens
Supporting sustainable simplifying self-selected change
Enhancing loving connection at home
United parents in the shared endeavor of parenting
A place to explore your values as a parent
Exploring how to connect your parenting style and skills with your values
Building community wth other "Simplifying Families"

You will:

Explore Simplicity Parenting - why, how, when
Understand the four realms for simplifying
Self-select small changes in each realm
Learn how to design a change plan with your co-parent or friend
Give and receive support for enacting and sustaining it at home
Build new connections in the group and at home

All kinds of parents and co-parents, grandparents, guardians, godparents and child care givers are welcome! Contact Andrea at andrea@simplicityparenting.com to find out when the next Simplicity Parenting Group is starting.

Simplicity Parenting is based on Kim John Payne's very successful book Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids (Ballentine Books/Random House, 2009). Everywhere he sees that childhood is besieged by the stresses of every day life in the 21st Century (http://www.socialsustain.com/).

More information?

To learn more about Simplicity Parenting and the slow parenting movement go to http://www.simplicityparenting.com/. On the website you can sign-up and participate in "The Circle" - a free online support group for simplifying families. You can also subscribe to the monthly Simplicity Ezine for free!

What if I am not able to participate in a group?

For those that are interested in Simplicity Parenting, but would prefer to work individually, Andrea is also available for personal parent coaching sessions. Simplicity Parenting Coaching provides both inspiration and a blueprint to parents who want to slow their children's lives down, but don't know where to start. Click here for more information.

Andrea Danneker, M.A.
818.438.9730
andrea@simplicityparenting.com

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