Meet Debbie: Your Partner in Positive Parenting
I am a wife, mother, teacher, and Parent Coaching Institute certified Parent Coach®.
Hi, I’m Debbie Kravitz. I am a former long time early childhood educator, and I am also the mother of three adult children that fill me with pride.
I live in Montclair, NJ where my husband and I raised our three children. I have been an Early Childhood educator for more than 30 years, teaching and guiding hundreds of children and their parents. After a dedicated career as an educator, my passion is now to coach parents through the process of better understanding their child’s behaviors and developing stronger, more successful and rewarding relationships with their children.
Parent Coaching will help you identify and uncover your parenting concerns and struggles, and discover solutions to challenges while revealing your many parenting strengths. Specializing in positive parenting, we work to create a more peaceful family life that is in alignment with your core values. In a judgment-free relationship, we find patterns in your parenting that are not working and replace them with new skills, understanding how you can parent differently from a place of strength, positivity, love and connection. I help you better understand your child’s behaviors, what they are telling us and how to meet their needs while meeting your own with self-care and in alignment with your core values.
I will help you grow alongside your child so that you grow together and stay connected.
Learning how to manage our own behaviors and emotional responses to triggers and reactions, changes the parent-child relationship. By first mastering self-regulation, we model and teach our child the valuable skill of self-regulation by learning how we can better self-regulate first.
You can expect better behavior, fewer outbursts, tantrums and meltdowns, deeper connections and a more peaceful home environment.
I look forward to learning about your challenges and helping you be the best parent you want to be.
Why work with a parent coach?
When we look deeply inside at what’s happening and uncover why the challenges are present, we can effect changes that are sustainable. As parents, we can grow alongside our children so that we grow together, not apart.
You repeat yourself over and over and resort to yelling
You use threats, punishments and timeout and still can’t get a handle on discipline
Screens and screen devices have taken over your child's life
You want to set limits and boundaries but aren’t sure what that means or how to implement them.
There is a lack of structure and routine and your child is easily triggered
Tantrums, outbursts and meltdowns are more prevalent than laughter, smiles and joy
Frustration, anger and resentment are your primary feelings
Following Instagramers and buying workshops are just not doing it. Working together we are in a deep, meaningful and positive parent coaching relationship.
Debbie’s coaching style stems from core beliefs
Children have an abundance of gifts to share
A child’s first and most important teacher are their parents
Children thrive with structure, consistency and predictability
Patience is not always innate. It’s learned, modeled, taught and sustained
Respect is a mutual value between parents and children
Parents grow and change along with their children
Self care helps parents make good decisions for their family
With my help, parents discover their own solutions
“The work I did with Debbie was simply put, life-changing. Parenting coaching has proven to be a real gift for me and for my family. It was an extremely pleasant and positive experience that always left me feeling empowered and supported.”
— Noemie