About
Jennifer Prince’s Resume
» 5 years facilitating the Becoming a Love and Logic Parent® program
» 16 years elementary classroom teaching
» 6 years educational teaching for organizations such as; YMCA Camp Collins Summer Camp, Multnomah County Outdoor School program, the Oregon Zoo education programs, Camp Fire USA-Camp Namanu Summer Camp.
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Her Story
There are sound bite moments in life when you know what’s just been said is going to play out somehow in your life. I experienced two of these moments in college, one early on in my sophomore year, the other on the eve of graduating from college. The first was spoken by my roommate when she said, “I don’t know what I’m going to do when I grow up, but whatever it is, I know I want to make a difference.” The second was when, as a group of senior psychology majors, we were asked by a professor what we wanted to do when we left college. As the question came around to me I remember thinking, “I don’t know anything I want to do continuing on in psychology, but for sure I know I want to be a good mom.”
Making a difference in the lives of others, and being a good mom, have been the navigators of my adult life. I have spent many years making a difference in the lives of the students I have taught, and over the last seven years or so have been focusing on my goal of being a good mom to my own two boys. It’s not that I wasn’t a good mom before, but who couldn’t use more resources, skills and support to become an even better parent?
I began Parenting with Empathy, LLC not only because I wanted to remind myself to approach my own children from an angle of understanding their problems, concerns and hardships through their eyes, but because I also wanted to help other parents develop an empathetic response with their own children. I wanted to help parents put the fun and joy back into what is the child’s building blocks, and basic framework, for all their future relationships be they with peers, teachers, other adults, girlfriends, boyfriends, bosses, coworkers, etc.
Parents need to come to understand the seriousness with which parenting should be approached. The way we interact with our children should be a conscious decision on our part. I want parenting to be a hands-on, active, fun experience for parents and their children. It is my goal that we as parents take the time and understanding to enjoy our children as we instill in them the skills they will need when they leave our homes and start their own. Our televisions and newspapers are full of stories reflecting what poor parenting can do, not only to an individual, but to the entire family, local community and global world.
Parenting is not a job that most of us have been trained to do. Nobody has to pass a test to become a parent. But I can bring to you the research-based, proven skills and techniques the Love and Logic ® Institute has been using for over 30 years so you are empowered to be the kind of person who can raise respectful, responsible, contributing members of society. When done well, parenting should be a job that is approached thoughtfully. One that has other people seeing you in the grocery store check out line and thinking, “Wow, how does he/she do that? Their kid isn’t whining, crying, sniveling or begging, in fact, the child is the one unloading the cart!”
- Jennifer Prince