Breaking The Cycle: Choosing to Break Away from Negative Parenting Experiences

UZAZI #25 The Roles of Parents

Parenting is an intricate combination of behaviours that individually and jointly combine to impact outcomes for children. parenting primarily seeks to influence, teach and control children. Parents were thought to play twin roles in helping children develop: nurturing children, and providing structure Jaki is an ICF credentialed Life Coach who uses the Goal Achievement approach. She helps clients achieve their life goals, including career, academic and parenting goals. Contact her on jaki@lifeskillscoaching.co.ke to know more about how she helps parents achieve their goals.

Uzazi #24 Parenting Adult Children

In Kenya we are observing more and more children leaving home later - in their late twenties and beyond. This is partially driven by the amount of time taken to finish school and properly establish oneself financially. But how do parents relate with children who are legally adult, but still live at home? Catherine Waiyaki shares her experience as a young parent and how it drove her to invest in learning and later helping others learn, how to parent effectively. She shares practical wisdom to help you navigate the years when your child is no longer a child. Catherine can be reached on cathywaiyaki@gmail.com [cathywaiyaki@gmail.com]. Jaki is an ICF credentialed Life Coach who uses the Goal Achievement approach. She helps clients achieve their life goals, including career, academic and parenting goals. Contact her onjaki@lifeskillscoaching.co.ke [jaki@lifeskillscoaching.co.ke]to know more about how she helps parents achieve their goals.

Breaking The Cycle: Choosing to Break Away from Negative Parenting Experiences

We first learn how to parent from how we were parented. In this podcast Lillian talks about the sense of  not belonging that plagued her for years because her parents couldn't be with her from a young age. She speaks of the lessons she learnt about her it affected her approach to disciplining her own child, and reflects on the lessons she learnt ob how to do it differently. You can find Lillian here:https://www.facebook.com/lillian.ndambuki [https://www.facebook.com/lillian.ndambuki]

Family Mental Health during COVID-19 pandemic

Restrictions have been introduced to manage the spread of Coronavirus. These restrictions have led to anxiety and stress. Counsellor and Teen Therapist speaks about the impact of the restrictions on family mental health, and makes suggestions about what families can do to mitigate this.

Uzazi #20 Get rid of the small things that add up to make big obstacles

Parents are never just parents, or only parents. They are also running a business, or working a job. They are siblings and caregivers to their parents. They are neighbours and team members somewhere. Their lives are full of action. That's why they cannot afford to spend time trying to kill a mosquito rather than sleeping and rejuvenating themselves for the next meaningful activity. Today's podcast talks about the little things that add up to big things and so take us away from the meaningful work we do as parents. Jaki is an ICF credentialed Life Coach who uses the Goal Achievement approach. She helps clients achieve their life goals, including career, academic and parenting goals. Contact her on jaki@lifeskillscoaching.co.ke [jaki@lifeskillscoaching.co.ke] to know more about how she helps parents achieve their goals.