Connecting the Dots
Individual parent/family guidance
Discussion facilitation
Group workshops
Speaking engagements
Connecting the Dots:
An Overview
Figuring out your parenting style can feel like assembling a million resources and beliefs into a well curated system.
Weaving together a family’s values and goals, the latest research, tips from popular parenting trends, and tried and true developmental theory, along with her own experiences as a mom of three, Jillian helps parents connect the dots to identify and hone their own particular set of parenting practices.
Jillian is now booking individual consultations, parenting workshops, and educator professional development trainings for September 2024 through June 2025.
Individual Consultations
Jillian provides parents with practical and emotional support to meet their goals, whether they’re looking to learn how to talk about racism with their children, build an allowance system that builds a healthy work ethic, or simply do less yelling to get through the day.
As our children grow, they experience “biobehavioral shifts,” or times when their physical, cognitive, and social-emotional development leaps forward. It can feel challenging to know how to adapt your parenting to match with their new skillset and needs. In her role as a parenting doula, Jillian provides reflective guidance and support during these periods of change and growth.
Professional Development
Jillian is an early childhood expert, having earned a Masters degree in Child Development from the renowned Erikson Institute. For over a decade, she put her knowledge to use training and coaching educators within the childcare and preschool industry. Jill has supported parents of young children through parent coaching sessions, facilitated discussions, and topic-driven workshops. Using a nonjudgmental, laughs-are-welcome-here approach, she guides parents and educators through the process of shifting their perspectives on everyday behaviors and commonly held beliefs about children and our interactions with them.
Jillian is the mother of three children and has learned a lot about parenting them in ways that meet their highly individual needs. Jill can speak with experience about a range of topics: she has given birth in a birth center with no medical intervention and she has had a c-section; she has breastfed and she has formula fed; she has co-slept and she has sleep trained; she has used childcare and she has juggled family-based care; the list goes on!
You can learn more about Jill’s life as a mom on the Parenting as Activism blog and podcast, as well as following her on Instagram @parentingasactivism or Facebook at Jillian Best Adler.