A Mum of a 2 year old – I enjoy every aspect of my life now

When I started the course I was at an extreme low. I had such neg­a­tive beliefs about nearly every aspect of my life. Steered away from most friends, think­ing they dis­liked me or judged how I par­ented. Did not enjoy going to work as I felt I was inca­pable and out of touch where I had gone to a part time mem­ber of the team. I felt that leav­ing my son in child­care was the wrong option and self­ish of me, he was act­ing out in day care hit­ting other chil­dren, which made me think that set­ting wasn’t the right one.

My part­ner works full time and takes every bit of over­time avail­able, so often I was tired and stressed. My part­ner would often just want to sit and rest and take time to him­self, I would then allow my thoughts to become neg­a­tive and think he no longer wanted to be a mem­ber our lit­tle fam­ily unit. Basi­cally, I was in need of some seri­ous pos­i­tiv­ity and empow­er­ment and needed to change how I let my thoughts affect my behaviour.

Where I was in such a neg­a­tive cycle, I was obliv­i­ous to the fact that my son was absorb­ing my neg­a­tiv­ity and sens­ing my sad­ness, even though I wasn’t dis­play­ing it in an obvi­ous man­ner, my gen­eral per­sona was evi­dent enough, although I was igno­rant to this. My son would be cry­ing and dis­play­ing anger to which I thought was for no rea­son at all whilst I sat think­ing about how unhappy I was. At times I would think my son’s behav­iour was a reac­tion to my incom­pe­tence of parenting!

Now I have attended the Par­ent Cham­pion course and dis­cov­ered that by con­cen­trat­ing on my own mag­nif­i­cence and capa­bil­i­ties, I enjoy every aspect of my life now. My son’s behav­iour has had a com­plete turn­around. I now par­ent nat­u­rally, I’m not in my head think­ing about reper­cus­sions or what other peo­ple think, I actu­ally enjoy the moment and allow my son to choose and explore and dis­cover the con­se­quences. This approach has devel­oped him so much. He really has become a beau­ti­ful char­ac­ter and has a real sense of empow­er­ment this is evi­dent in his behav­iour, not only at home, but in day care also.

This course has taken me out of my com­fort zone com­pletely and taught me to always be open-minded and non-judgemental and this has all been good! I am a new per­son with new ambi­tions and goals – such a pos­i­tive con­trast to before I attended the course. So if ever you have the oppor­tu­nity to attend the course – I would say it is a must!

Miss JM, Parent”