• Our parenting philosophy
• Our own baggage we bring as parents
• Our goals as parents
• Learning to navigate through one’s own challenges as a parents
• Prepare and learn about anticipated milestones
• Parents distressed by a particular challenge or emotional issues of their own that has
  made parenting particularly challenging for them

• Coaching asks certain things, all of which begin with intention.
• When an individual has a fairly clear idea of the desired outcome, a coaching partnership can be a useful tool for developing a strategy for how to achieve that outcome with greater ease.
• Also, ask yourself whether you are ready to devote the time and the energy to making real changes. If the answer is yes, then coaching may be a beneficial way to grow and develop.

Coaching typically begins with a personal interview (either face-to-face or by teleconference call) to assess the parent’s current situation and challenges, define the scope of the relationship, identify priorities for action and establish specific desired outcomes. Between scheduled coaching sessions, the individual may be asked to complete specific actions that support the achievement of one's personally prioritized goals.

The fundamentals of life coaching are what distinguishes it from therapy. Life coaches do not diagnose the people they work with, while therapists determine illnesses and pathologies so their patients can be clinically treated. Therapists analyze their client’s past as a tool for understanding present behaviors, whereas life coaches simply identify and describe current problematic behaviors so the client can work to modify them.
Therapists focus on “why” certain behavioral patterns occur, and coaches work on “how” to work toward a goal. Therapists help clients get is a deeper understanding of behaviors and patterns. Life coaches focus on an individual’s actions and results. Life coaches measure their client’s success with key performance indicators and specific behavioral outcomes and goals.

A life coach would be able to offer guidance by:

• Clarifying and achieving personal and professional goals
  Creating business plans
• Working to improve communication skills
• Achieving financial independence and security
• Achieving a work/life balance
• Starting a new business or growing a current business

A therapist, on the other hand, focuses their conversation on ways to:

• Recover from past traumas
• Explore why past relationships (business or personal) have been destructive
• Work through depression or anxiety that affect your ability to function at home or work
• Survive a divorce or loss of a loved one