Field Guide to Plugged-In Parenting

Parenting is too important to leave to chance. If you don’t set an end goal and chart a course rooted in self-care and your own family values, then you’re really just babysitting your kids. Parents are stressed out by the sheer volume of daily choices, and they know there has to be a better way to make them. Mothers aren’t taking care of themselves, thereby making it more difficult to take care of their kids. Plugged-in Parenting is a spiritual practice that makes life easier and more joyful. You can build a parenting plan that makes you feel connected to your kids, beginning a child-rearing cycle of mutual love and respect. Using the tools in this book, your plan will also be flexible enough to survive the test of time and teenagers. Plugged-in Parenting can help readers leave the “wolf baby” cycle behind, by forgiving their parents for their shortcomings. In letting go of resentment, and nurturing and loving their children, readers can heal their own childhood wounds. Author Terri Fedonczak gives parents of all backgrounds life-coaching strategies and a parenting plan outline. Readers will also learn the Change-Cycle Tool for navigating the unexpected shifts that happen at different ages and stages. As a reformed control freak, Fedonczak teaches that mastering change is infinitely more useful than trying to control every outcome.

Parenting is too important to leave to chance. If you don’t set an end goal and chart a course rooted in self-care and your own family values, then you’re really just babysitting your kids. Parents are stressed out by the sheer volume of daily choices, and they know there has to be a better way to make them. Mothers aren’t taking care of themselves, thereby making it more difficult to take care of their kids. Plugged-in Parenting is a spiritual practice that makes life easier and more joyful. You can build a parenting plan that makes you feel connected to your kids, beginning a child-rearing cycle of mutual love and respect. Using the tools in this book, your plan will also be flexible enough to survive the test of time and teenagers. Plugged-in Parenting can help readers leave the “wolf baby” cycle behind, by forgiving their parents for their shortcomings. In letting go of resentment, and nurturing and loving their children, readers can heal their own childhood wounds. Author Terri Fedonczak gives parents of all backgrounds life-coaching strategies and a parenting plan outline. Readers will also learn the Change-Cycle Tool for navigating the unexpected shifts that happen at different ages and stages. As a reformed control freak, Fedonczak teaches that mastering change is infinitely more useful than trying to control every outcome.

Terri Fedonczak was “raised by wolves.” Her parents weren’t bad people, just bad parents. Terri has put that story behind her to create a new one. A Certified Martha Beck Life Coach, she supports moms with parenting their daughters for a smooth transition into the teen-age years, rooted in family values and focusing on end goals. She teaches teens to choose cooperation over competition and how to break the “Mean Girl Syndrome” that consistently impairs the relationships of high school girls. The mother of four daughters, Terri also has over 20 years of personal parenting experience.