Today I was speaking to a lovely lady who wants to enrol in our Kids Life Coach certification but she was stuck in fear...

I told her that was perfectly normal and that she needed to start discerning between facts and feelings.

Fact: "Will I know enough to coach children?"

I told doing our kids life coach training would equip her to coach children responsibly, ethically and sustainably! Knowledge is power! If she spends time working through our Kids Life Coach Training, she will know have a solid foundation to build onto. 

Feeling: "Am I good enough to coach children?

I told her you are only as good as the last child you have coached! Experience and confidence comes with practice! Even the coaches I have trained who never had any experience working with children have excelled because we do a LOT of work building a theoretical foundation but we also work on mindset. Both a duality of importance. 

She needs to do some transformational work....it will take time but with effort she w...

Parents naturally become their children's first teachers, guiding them through learning various skills such as sports, cooking, sewing, and even academics, with many opting for homeschooling with notable success. However, offering life coaching to their own children presents a unique challenge.

To foster sustainable development in Executive Functioning Skills, it often takes an external Kids Life Studio® coach that parents trust. The impact of external affirmation on a child, from someone other than their parents or grandparents, is profound. Witnessing the joy and uplift in a child's demeanor when their efforts are recognized by an outsider is truly special. Moreover, managing a highly emotional or frequently angry child without escalating one's own emotions is a challenge where a Kids Life Coach can make a significant difference.

Our role as Kids Life Coaches is not to solve problems for parents but to coach the children directly. We have the advantage of observing the family dynam...

I have worked with many people from around the world who ask me this question at the beginning of their journey:

"What if I get it wrong as a Kids Life Coach?"

My answer is always the same...if you have a robust coaching system in place and you have a solid foundation of knowledge in place, you can't go wrong with good intentions. 

What this means is this: 

Anybody who is coaching children with an adult coaching certification or without any certification may be at risk of failing as a Kids Life Coach. Without doing due diligence on what kids life coaching is, and what it isn't, many well intentioned people take short cuts. They want to help children but they don't necessarily know how so they find out by trial and error. To me this can be dangerous. 

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When I started my kids life coaching practice in 2003, it was with two degrees in Education and having written a family resilience programme for my Univers...

Last week I had an unplanned coaching call with a teen coachee. She wasn't scheduled to have a maintenance coaching session with me, but she was feeling overwhelmed and reached out spontaneously via WhatsApp expressing her challenges. She sounded like she was in trouble...so I called her. 

Now, as a Kids Life Coach for over two decades, this isn't something I usually do. There are boundaries that need to be kept intact as a coach and one of them is preserving your time and charging for your time. However, there are sometimes cases like this one where these boundaries need to be shifted temporarily. 

If you are serious about getting outcomes for your coaching clients, it isn't just about what you can do in your 45 minute coaching session once a week. It is way way more than that. In fact, your coaching sessions is only partway there!

What young people need is the safety and security that you are available if and when they need you. This doesn't imply an unhealthy co-dependency, but i...

Okay, so I am not kidding here....but April was officially my WORST month of this year so far....Here I am....ME...whispering this secret out loud!! WHAT?

You see, I turned 50 on 2nd of April and my month started off well and then it slowly started to deteriorate. Even with so many good things in my life...

Recently, I have noticed that a lot of people feel impatient. They want to help children. They want to do their best for children. They want to learn how to coach children BUT they want to do it quickly! 

In the past (I have been training people since 2009), this wasn't the case. I just feel that the media is pushing their agenda of declining mental wellbeing in children and people (perhaps you?) are feeling desperate to be part of the solution and help.

I am here to tell you that if you want to help and do be part of the solution there is only one way to do it.

PROPERLY!

Anybody who knows me as the founder of Kids Life Studio® Global and who has done our Kids Life Coach Certification training knows this about me....

• I don't do short cuts.
• I don't believe in short cuts.
• I don't do a half job.

When it comes to coaching children, you cannot learn to do that in a weekend or a short online course that takes a few hours and doesn't have rigorous training and a sustainable approa...

What a great Kids Life Studio® group strategy session we had today! With the United Nations announcing their brand new inaugural International Day of Play, last week, we spent time speaking through ideas to become involved as a global network of Kids Life Coaches.

Global research in the Lego Play Well Study 2024, surveying more than 25,000 children across 36 countries revealed that as many as 73% of children don’t believe adults take play – and how it can help them learn – seriously. 

As Play Based Coaches, we consider ourselves in a privileged position to support children to grow, learn, think, understand and apply their goal setting strategies in a playful but meaningful way. We play with a purpose and its time to get engaged and involved in this ongoing conversation on the declining rates of play in childhood!

We are all "Play Ambassadors" and to celebrate the wonderful work all of us are doing, you can prepare yourself and become involved in the following 5 ways:

1. Read the Yo...