Why Choose Parent Coaching as a Career?
by Gloria DeGaetano, M. Ed. Parent coaching is a uniquely rewarding profession. Jennifer Mangan, a writer and PCI Certified Parent Coach® in the Chicago area, refers to parent coaching as a “vocation.” Many of our parent coaches speak of it as a “special calling.” A calling, a personal mission is “not a means of a livelihood, but life itself.” (1) In his book, The Re-Invention of Work, Matthew Fox, Creation Spirituality theologian points out: “We all need our calling for our spiritual existence; we need work that is more than a livelihood, that is life itself. As Thomas Aquinas observed, ‘to live well is to work well, or display a good activity.’ Living and working go together, and our work is about displaying the beautiful, displaying our being, displaying our truth, displaying life…” (2) In parent coaching, we not only display life, we entice more aliveness. So many parents living in today’s techno-isolating world, are out of touch, literally and figuratively, with their own alivenes
