What’s Parenting Toolbox?
Where parenting meets personal development.
Parenting Toolbox is an online learning manual for parents who wants to accelerate their child’s development, while maximising their own parenting, personal and professional growth. Oh, and enjoying family-life!
Every parent wants the best for their child, but good intentions aren’t enough. The difference between parents who struggle and those that thrive lies with the tools and know how that you possess.
Want happy, less anxious kids? Then you need methods to bring down anxiety and drive up confidence.
Wish for less bickering and more family harmony? Well, who doesn’t. But a few simple techniques consistently applied can transform family-life for good.
Long for kids to willingly help you out? Not sure about the willingly bit, but there are a bunch of easy-to-use strategies you can use that will ensure your kids contribute regularly to their family.
Parenting is the ultimate self-growth experience
The growth of a child is the growth of a parent, or is should be.
This truism I’ve witnessed time and again over nearly three decades as parenting educator. Great parents see past the negatives of parenting and understand that raising kids provides a unique opportunity to learn new skills and knowledge, develop a range of personal qualities and fine-tune their leadership skills in the red-hot furnace of family-life.
Parenting Toolbox provides you with the tools, strategies and guidance you need to maximise this wonderful growth opportunity for you and your family.
Each week you will receive an easy-to-read, instructional, thought-provoking guide to build your parenting know how.
These guides will:
Unlock the mysteries of birth order so you can meet each child’s inherent needs.
Share practical, researched based strategies to help you raise happy, confident, resilient kids and build a super-strong family.
Help develop real independence and agency in kids so that they won’t be living in your basement when they’re 30.
Remove parenting trial and error so you’ll be more competent and feel more confident as a mother or father.
Help you understand the needs of both girls and boys.
Show you how to build your long-term parenting strategy rather than rely on quick fixes and top tips to parent your kids.
Recognise that there are many ways to be right as a parent - but the end result, whatever road you take, is to raise kind, considerate kids, comfortable in their own skins, and able to make a contribution to the communities in which they belong.
Encourage you play to long game as a parent. Yep, keep your eye on prize as they do grow up and leave home…..eventually!
Who is the creator?
I’m Michael Grose, a parenting educator with over 30 years experience, based in Australia, the land that gave the world Bluey.
A former teacher, I’m the author of 12 books for parents including Why first borns rule the world and last borns want to change it, Spoonfed Generation, Working Parents, Thriving and Anxious Kids.
I’ve been a columnist for in major newspapers and magazines across Australia writing about parenting, education and family-life.
Along the way I had regular stints on radio and national television talking about.. yep, you guessed it…parenting. A five year weekly segment on ABC radio discussing popular topics and answering talkback questions was a wonderful experience.
As a parent educator inevitably I became a speaker so I’ve had heaps of fun talking about parenting throughout Australia and many parts of the world including UK, US, parts of Europe and Singapore.
I’ve also conducted over 3,000 parenting seminars and workshops so I have a fair handle on the issues, hopes and dreams that most parents face.
I also had the honor of giving the first parenting seminar to the nation’s leaders in Parliament House, Canberra. Now that was a moment!
Recently, I sold Parenting Ideas my digital parenting education business to a friendly competitor and decided that speaking (and the travel that goes with it) is not for me.
My professional time, energy and expertise now goes into Parenting Toolbox. I hope you find my efforts enjoyable and rewarding.
More about Parenting Toolbox
Parenting Toolbox will help you build your expertise so you can confidently and competently meet the challenges of parenting, regardless of age or circumstances.
Parenting Toolbox promotes its signature Triple C approach - you’ll get the tools to build confidence, competence and capacity in your kids.
At the same time your confidence as a parent will grow as your parenting competence builds and capacity to cope with challenges expands.
Don’t worry, if that sounds a little daunting. We’ll take the slow, sensible approach and build your toolbox one post at a time.
One other thing
Yep, I forgot to mention.
I’m the father of three adult children who have successfully flown the parenting nest and began the their own families. I was lucky to share my parenting journey with Sue, a born people person and a natural with kids.
With seven grandchildren under ten (two live in Sweden), there’s certainly no shortage of real-life material to draw upon and keep me grounded.
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