First Draft

Josh Questions

What do I know?

• Family with support and guidance is possible.

• Change in family communication and discipline styles is possible.

How can I help?

• By coaching a selection of alternative styles to see what works and provide support to keep them in use & working.

What things have I learned?

• That violent, manipulative, boisterous and other non-serving, upsetting styles of interaction can be eliminated and replaced with reasonable communication.

• I have experienced “automatics” of violence, and I have replaced them with a toolbox of behaviors to improve communication, to express approval, disapproval, to discuss, to encourage, to allow the same from my spouse and child.

What am I going to do?

• I am going to prepare five alternate styles of response to explosion, to be immediately ready to build a new parenting tool box.

Why am I going to do it

• I am still trying to uncover and repair internal damage that interferes with my enjoyment of my life and pursuit of projects that will fulfill me.

• I am so proud of myself when I feel I have helped someones life be more enjoyable, easier, and successful.

How am I going to do it?

• By offering my services as a coach to individuals and families that suspect their home lives could be more copacetic and that their current personal styles could be contributing to unnecessary upset.

What if I run into obstacles

• I have enough inside to be unconcerned with “sales resistance” or anything else external.