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Ruth Taylor – Parenting Coaching Cards | Expert Interview
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7 months ago
Ruth Taylor – Parenting Coaching Cards | Expert Interview
Parenting Coach Ruth Taylor Talks the What, Why and How of our Parenting Coaching Cards with MBM CEO Darren A. Smith
In this exclusive discussion, Ruth touches on why her experience as a parent herself and her training as a soft skills facilitator makes her the perfect coach to have written our deck of 80 parenting coaching cards. Ruth and Darren cover the what, the why and the how of this deck of coaching cards, together with a few key pieces of advice and guidance that can be found in this brand new deck!
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Read the Full Parenting Coaching Cards Podcast Transcript Below:
Darren A. Smith
Welcome to the world stickiest learning. My name is Darren Smith and more importantly, I'm here with Ruth Taylor. Ruth, how you doing?
Ruth Taylor
Pretty good today. Thank you. When I say today, for me it's night time.
Darren A. Smith
Good.
It is. Where are you in the world?
Ruth Taylor
Well, I decided to move from the UK all the way to the other side of the world, so I'm currently in New Zealand.
Darren A. Smith
Right. OK. So it's 9:00 AM here. It's probably about 9:00 PM there, isn't it?
Ruth Taylor
10:00.
Darren A. Smith
Oh, right. OK. Thank you very much for coming in. We've got 3 short questions for you about the cards that you created, which I can see on the right there. So the first question is: Why, in the nicest possible way, should we talk to you about parenting? What do you know about parenting?
Ruth Taylor
When I came to New Zealand, I had toddlers and now I have two adults who I'm very proud of. They're in their 20s now. I was very fortunate. I did parenting courses before I had parents.
Darren A. Smith
OK.
Ruth Taylor
Parents? before I had children.
Before I had children and that's something that most people don't get the chance to do. But I was trained as a parenting coach and a facilitator for courses by health promotion at the time to work with parents, and I thought this is awesome. I've got this and then what I found was the reality of having your own children is.
Darren A. Smith
Yeah.
Ruth Taylor
Not quite as simple as they made out.
But there were things which I was able to consider before having children, which maybe other people weren't, because obviously having gone on the courses, there was things I could talk to my husband about going. Have you ever thought about this? It was like, no. So those questions where I was thinking, well, how can we encourage other people to be able to ask those questions either before they even think about getting pregnant, when they are pregnant.
And all that. So that's really kind of where the coaching clads came from and also where the sort of sections of the the cards came from.
So and in my life I'm a facilitator. I I facilitate soft skill courses, communication skills, conflict management, leadership skills.
Emotional literacy. A lot of things like that. So I've worked in schools, I've worked in hospitals with leaders, with parents, with children. So I guess I have a different insight as well as.
How how we often think about children isn't actually how children think, and sometimes we don't think of the impact of our actions on our children.
And therefore having again having card which encourages to reflect before we open our mouths or before we make certain decisions means that hopefully we'll get more of the behaviour we're looking for.
Darren A. Smith
That that makes perfect sense. I know. When Gabby was born 25 years ago,
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