Dear Dori and Frank:

Recently my husband and I heard about a teenage girl committing suicide after she was bullied by several classmates – it was all over the news.  In this world today with so many stressors being brought to bear on our children, what would a World Class Parent do to provide the coping tools that would help our children to deal with situations like this?

Really Concerned Mom

Dear Really Concerned Mom:

Dori and I share your concern on this subject.  Times have changed as childhood has been shortened and early adult behavior has been encouraged among young adolescents who really don’t have the skills to act upon them.

The answer to your question lies within the guiding principles you foster and model for your children.  At World Class Parenting we are champions for fully vetted and articulated Family Values, which are one of our Four Cornerstone Principles.  When values are in alignment all decisions are easy to make. Values are used as internal measuring tools by our children to determine whether the action they are about to take is supported by their family and personal values.  If not, their own red flags would go up and cause them to question their choice.  Ideally, as a result, they will choose to engage with you or someone they trust in a conversation or a more constructive act that serves them.

Values define the character or soul of the Family.  Your children will know they are a part of something bigger than just themselves.  This gives them the strength to say “no” when appropriate and it also gives them a clear glimpse of who they are in the world, their personal strength in character; and, of course, self confidence.

The person I’ve just described does not travel on a path of self destruction but seeks those activities and associates who share and honor personal values as a way of life.

This subject is discussed thoroughly under the second Cornerstone Principle of World Class Parenting found in our Handbook for Parents entitled: “Stepping Into the World Class Parenting Mindset: How To Be Proactive, Purposeful and Fundamentally Prepared For ANY Parenting Challenge You May Face” found on our website at www.worldclassparenting.com.

In Service,

Frank

The decision to bring a life into this world or invite one into your life is the ultimate act of faith, hope and belief in this world and in the beauty and potential of humanity.  Parents are among the most hopeful, faithful, hard-working and resilient people we know.  We exist to support and celebrate them.

At World Class Parenting, we know that life can be very, very good, something to savor and enjoy, filled with new beginnings and possibilities.  And, it can be very, very challenging, filled with curve balls, traumas, loss and sometimes very painful endings.  At World Class Parenting, we embrace all of it and teach our parents how to pause and appreciate what they have and what they’ve accomplished together, how to constructively hold the tension and sit in the heart of the paradoxes of life, how to stand in new perspectives that serve, and how to build new muscles that enhance relationships and that benefit from the breadth and depth of their experiences and individual and collective wisdom.

Life is hard.  It does not have to be harder.  We help parents to stay hopeful, to have faith in their original vision for themselves, their children and their families, to stay the course, and to continue to believe in the beauty of their dreams.

We help parents to keep the aliveness in their lives, their relationships and their homes, or recover it if it has diminished in the midst of the busyness and the outside-in pressures that take a cumulative toll over time.  We teach tangible skills that help parents to stay in choice about parenting, to minimize the worries and stressors in their lives, and to meet the challenges and opportunities they face head on and in healthy ways that work.

We have created powerful and relevant resources to support you in your mission to become a more masterful parent and to successfully launch self-aware, self-responsible, independent, ethical and service/community-oriented, happy young adults into the world.

We created World Class Parenting in response to the requests of thousands of parents everywhere, parents we’ve worked with in our coaching practices and support groups, neighbors, friends and family, all of whom said we have something special here that more parents want and need to know.  So, here it is.

To learn more, we invite you to go to our website, www.worldclassparenting.com.

We welcome you to it with open arms.  And we encourage you to join us, as you are ready.

Warmly,

Dori Klass & Frank Brogni,

Co-Founders & Your Partners in World Class Parenting

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