Welcome to the
12-Week Parent Mastery Program
A transformational program for frustrated parents who are longing for a better relationship with their child.
Do you long for:
Peaceful daily interactions with your child?
Ease in your everyday dynamic with them?
Patience in navigating conflict and emotions?
Cooperation between you and your child?
Balance with stress and boundaries?
Confidence and leadership in your parenting?
Support in knowing if you are doing the right thing with your child?
Practical tools, knowledge, and strategies?
Feeling the joy in parenting again?
A close and loving relationship with your child?
Parenting does not have to be unenjoyable or a constant struggle. All we need are the right tools to put in place.
What you’ll walk away with after this 12-week program is:
-More positive daily interactions with your child.
-Reduced reactivity.
-More peace and ease in your daily parenting.
-Increased patience and understanding during conflict.
-Increased capacity and tolerance for disagreement.
-Confidence in your parenting.
-The joy back in your parenting.
-Powerful tools for conflict resolution.
-Reduced power struggles.
-Deeper trust from your child.
-Empowered communication tools that don’t involve yelling, punishment, threats, or bribes.
-Ease and confidence in handling your child’s undesired behaviors without enforcing consequences.
-Clarity in your family values and boundaries.
-Ease in upholding boundaries.
-Coping strategies.
-More cooperation with your child.
-A long-term loving relationship with your child.
Picture this…
You wake up and your child is cranky, but you pause and access simple strategies that give you the capacity to hold space for them, navigate their irritability and frustration as a team, and although it was a little messy, both of you are left feeling closer and connected afterward.
This feeling of connection allows your child more ease in their morning routine of getting dressed and eating breakfast. This feeling of connection allows you to access some playful solutions about getting into the car.
Your child feels safe with you to be open and come to you with their problems, and you know exactly how to show up for them that helps them feel soothed and secure, building trust with each interaction.
After school when your child doesn’t want to do homework, rather than reacting with yelling, a bribe, or threats, you are able to see what they are longing for underneath their refusal, and you both work together on some possible ways to meet their needs before diving into homework.
By the evening, you aren’t greeted with the level of exhaustion or depletion you are used to because your mindset and perspective are aligned with the truth about who your child is, their feelings and needs, and your own feelings and needs.
Perhaps before dinner, your child crosses a boundary, and you don’t react or yell, but instead embrace it with a longing to understand, and welcome the opportunity to re-connect.
You feel peace as you lay in bed because even though things didn’t play out perfectly, you showed up and worked to maintain a quality relationship with your child, and this is what matters most to them, and they will look back on their childhood with deep appreciation for how you made them feel, especially when they struggled. And they will now have the security and tools to use with their own family.
What are parents saying about the 12-Week Parent Mastery Program?
Completing the Jai Institute for Parenting course with Christina Carter was profoundly transformative for myself and for my family. The wealth of information acquired throughout the course is invaluable, enlightening and will undoubtedly provide guidance again and again throughout my parenthood journey.
The course is customized in that it requires you to unpack your own childhood experiences and traumas in order to truly understand how your perceptions, patterns, judgments, and triggers were formed. This process, albeit challenging, uncomfortable and at times painful, gave me the understanding, self-compassion and forgiveness necessary for real change.
The coursework is supportive and non-shaming; it made me feel more connected as a parent with struggles who simply wants to do better. This course provides real tools, real examples and creative ideas centered around authenticity and unconditional love.
Having Christina as a coach felt very natural in that she created a safe, trusting space without judgment. She has a positive personality, an accepting demeanor and a genuine care for her clients that was felt in every interaction we had throughout the course. Christina’s expertise, coupled with her intuitive nature, helped to provide real solutions to real problems in our home while always emphasizing progress, not perfection.
Small shifts in my approach to parenting have made a significant impact on my family and the overall vibe in our home. It’s a work in progress, but I’m a much better communicator, a more attentive listener and a more compassionate parent thanks to this course and Christina’s leadership. —Rikki and Joe, parents of 2 boys, ages 7 and 4
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I am finally getting to enjoy my little girl’s personality now that we’ve connected and have hardly had any negative interactions… and she’s so cute! —April and Joseph, parents of a 4 year old girl and a 1 year old boy
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You have helped us so much. It is a blessing to have someone we can turn to regularly who can be the mediator, the voice of reason, who knows what they’re talking about. We are grateful to have that in you. —Danielle and Chris, parents of 4 pre-teens/teens
What results have parents reported after completing the program?
• Significant increase in positive interactions with their kids after having 1 session.
• Extinction of old, conditioned parenting patterns after completing 10 sessions.
• After 12 sessions, all parents who gave feedback reported reduced reactivity, and increased peace, ease, patience, confidence, and joy in their parenting.
• Their child’s meltdown and tantrum duration significantly reduced, some going from 2 hours down to under 10 minutes by the end of the program.
• Their child’s bedtime and morning routine has gone from lasting for hours to regular duration that is smooth with minimal struggle, by the end of the program.
After completing this program, you will never have to:
tell yourself “‘I can’t do this”, “I’m not cut out for this”, or “My child would be better off with anyone else but me”.
doubt yourself
fear failure as a parent
feel helpless as a parent
yell, punish, or threaten
feel not good enough as a parent
come up with consequences
want to run away or shut down when there is conflict
Here is how the program works
Each week, for 12 weeks, we focus on 1 empowered parenting topic. Some of those topics include:
o identifying traditional parenting patterns we fall into when stressed
o the physiology, brain, and nervous system in everyday parenting
o blocks and limiting beliefs that prevent understanding and connection
o building emotional intelligence
o empowered conversations and communication
o conflict resolution
o healthy anger and aggression
In addition to 1 topic each week, you will receive 60-minute weekly private coaching sessions with me either in person (if local), virtually, or by phone, tailored specifically to your current parenting challenges and anything that comes up for you during our time together.
Outside of our weekly coaching, you will have access to an online portal where you can watch videos and download worksheets for each lesson each week, that will help you dig deep into each empowered parenting topic.
Each week we will cover new concepts, tools, strategies, knowledge, and skills of empowered parenting, while incorporating that in with your specific parenting circumstances and unique journey.
You will have unlimited email support from me.
Hi, I’m Christina, your parenting coach
As a child, I was sensitive and observant. I experienced frequent frustration and irritability, but couldn’t make sense of it. And that led to anger.
Why was it that when I experienced the most dysregulation, did I wind up acquiring the opposite of what I needed most?
I so badly needed soothing, validation, and connection, but my difficult and defiant behaviors pushed me so far away from my caregivers. And I almost always ended up feeling isolated, scared, confused, ashamed, and disconnected. Which occasionally ended in mediocre compliance, at best.
And this leads to the gradual destruction of the parent-child relationship, one of the most important and influential relationships we have.
I know the daily disconnect families struggle with. I get it.
You don’t have to gently manipulate your kids' behavior in order to have control. You don’t have to change, fix, or overpower your child to instill obedience and compliance.
There is another way of parenting that prevents so much unnecessary suffering.
Knowing what kids long for and what parents value, I have the tools to connect a parent and child, so that parents and children can have a close and loving relationship, daily.
Having completely transformed my own relationship with my parents, and having helped hundreds of parents significantly increase their positive interactions with their kids, some after having only 1 session with me, and after 12 sessions with me, reported reduced reactivity, and increased peace, ease, patience, confidence, and joy in their parenting, I can help you do this for your family too.
Frequently Asked Questions
1.) Who is this program for?
This program is for parents who are aware that they need to be the change in order to improve their parenting challenges, and are ready to go deep to get the family life they’ve been dreaming of, who are willing to change their perspective, invest in their family, and are willing to be guided by a professional.
This program is not for parents who want tactics and tips to gently manipulate and control their child’s behavior to achieve compliance and obedience.
2.) Is this program for my kids too or just for parents?
The program is for parents only. It is specifically designed to be a parent-centric program because when parents change, children change.
3.) What children’s ages do you specialize in?
The program material can be applied to all parent-child relationships, no matter what age, but I specialize in helping parents of children around ages 0 - 10.
4.) Can my spouse join or do we each purchase separately?
Definitely! It is ideal to have the child’s caregivers be involved and on the same page. However, it is not necessary in order to achieve maximum benefits of this program. The maximum benefits are completely possible with one caregiver involved.
5.) Will I have access to the whole program right away, or is it given to me each week?
You will have access to all online program material immediately. So feel free to explore the online portal at your leisure, and we will focus on one lesson each week.
6.) Are there tests?
There are no tests. There is no perfect parenting, and this parenting program does not value performance, but more so your everyday presence with your child.
7.) Is this parenting approach only effective for calm personality types?
Not at all. Any personality type can learn and effectively integrate an empowered parenting approach, because empowered parenting is not about how well you can tolerate stress or how “go-with-the-flow” you are, but is about transforming your relationship with your stressors, so they no longer are stressful. It is about showing up for your child in full connection to yourself, exactly how you are.
8.) Is this program going to change me into a passive/careless parent in order to tolerate the stress of parenting?
Most certainly not. Positive parenting is not passive parenting, and is not about detaching from reality. Forcing yourself not to care is not the route taken in this program. Not only is that approach not supportive for you or your child, but it does not teach the skills of emotional intelligence or how to achieve inner safety during parenting challenges. This program focuses on bringing you out of your triggers that cause you to resort to power-over or power-under parenting strategies and into empowerment and what is true about the situation. This allows you to show up better for your child.
9.) Do I have to avoid certain environments or situations to get the most benefit from this program?
No indeed. In fact, exposing yourself to a variety of circumstances is a great way to practice and solidify the skills you learn from this program. This program brings you into empowerment, where you will have the courage, capacity, and tolerance for stress, challenges, and big emotions. Embracing different environments and situations allows you to continue to grow your mastery as an empowered parent.
10.) If all of my triggers are in my environment, and I can’t control my environment, how is this program going to benefit me?
The program focuses primarily on your inner environment, and teaching you the skills of cultivating inner security, so that no matter what environment you are in, you will have the skills to navigate that environment with groundedness, awareness, connection, and understanding.
11.) Is this coaching or therapy?
This is strictly a coaching program that helps you identify the ways you have learned to cope with stress in your life, how you bring that into your parenting, and how it may not be in service to you any longer or your relationship with your child, and we work to form new, supportive ways of coping that fosters a more loving relationship with your child.
As we work together, if there are deeper, ongoing, underlying issues that surface, it is important to seek the help of a licensed therapist as we continue to work through the parenting program.