If you decide to become a parent coach, you’ll quickly learn one of the greatest challenges parents face is raising siblings.  And siblings fight.  Of course if you become a life coach you’ll be able to help parents, but when you decide to become a parent coach you become part of a niche that is in demand.  Right now parents are surfing the web in search of reasons why their children fight with each other, and they might not even think of seeking help from someone who has become a life coach.  You can become a parent’s greatest resource if you choose to become a parent coach.

To Become a Parent Coach You Need to Understand Why Siblings Fight

In order to become a parent coach, you need to understand why siblings fight.  They fight over everything and nothing.  As someone who has already become a life coach, it’s probably easy to see that not all fights are due to a deep underlying emotional disturbance.  Children are merely trying to get their needs met.  Sometimes they fight merely because they are siblings, which occurs with greater frequency the closer in age they are.  Other siblings fight because they enjoy it.  It might be fun to annoy your brother or sister.  And sometimes siblings fight because they have nothing better to do.  These are the easier issues to address.

As You Dive Deeper and Decide to Become a Parent Coach, You’ll Discover More Challenging Issues

If you decide to do more than become a life coach, you’ll get the more challenging issues.  If you decide to become a parent coach you need to be aware of that there can be conflict that arises by emotions that your clients’ child experiences.  Just by becoming a life coach who helps their clients recognize these issues in their children will provide value.  Some of these reasons you might encounter as you become a parent coach are fights for parental attention or trying to seek equality.  Unfortunately, in many families children get their needs met for attention at a higher level when they are fighting.  It’s not easy to manage.  My 8-year-old daughter posed a poignant question today.  She asked, “Why does he (my 2-year-old son) get all the attention just because he’s wild, and I don’t get any attention when I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing.”  Children keep track.

If You Become a Life Coach You Can Take Comfort in Knowing Sibling Rivalry Has Benefits

Take heart, whether you become a life coach or become a parenting coach, because sibling rivalry does have its benefits.  Children get to develop and practice skills that will help them function outside their own families, and with your help parents can shorten the learning curve.

Colette Seymann

JTS Advisors Bi-Designated Strategy and Accountability Coach