helping couples navigate parenthood

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Welcome to Parents that Work. We’re here to support parents and parents-to-be navigate parenthood and careers by helping to strengthen the foundations of your family.

Becoming a parent will be one of the first significant transitions that you experience as a couple. It opens up completely new levels of joy and love. As a couple, it can also bring heightened levels of frustration, conflict and stress. The way that you start a family and the decisions that you make in the first three years of parenthood will have a significant impact on the attachments you both have with your child, your careers and relationship.

When we are preparing for parenthood, we know to book onto an antenatal class, and perhaps explore hypnobirthing. We’ll read books and blogs that help prepare for birth and the early weeks of having a baby. We often don’t think about the impact its going to have on our relationship, or have the conversations about our expectations of family life.

This is where Parents that Work comes in. With coaching programmes, and our workbook, we are here to support parents through these early years with stronger parenting partnerships, and a successful balance of careers and family.

  • You are the beating heart of your family

    Rachel Childs

Programmes

Transition to parenthood with strong family foundations. Navigate parenting and careers with equality. We have three group or individual coaching programmes dedicated for your early parenthood transitions:

Beyond Baby Talk. Your pathway to parenthood. For expectant and new parents to prioritise conversations that will build a strong foundation for your future family.

The Village. Working parents working together. Building a deep community, confidence and rebalancing your parenting partnership to support your transition back to work.

How do we do this?! Succeeding as dual-career parents. Build clairty and alignment on navigating two careers and a family.

The workbook

Beyond Baby Talk. Two people, nine months and the twelve conversations you never knew you needed to have.

A transformational workbook to take on twelve date nights before your baby is born. Build strong foundations for your future family and have the conversations that you’re future self will be grateful you had.

Coaching

Walking side by side with couples wanting to renew their parenting partnership. Supporting individuals to navigate their career changes, choices and transitions alongside parenthood.

“I’ve seen and heard Rachel’s expertise first hand and it’s amazing. I wish we’d had these conversations prior to the birth, rather than which cot or pram to buy”
— Ellie

  • As a busy working mum-to-be, i found the topics and conversation starters in this book immensely helpful. It's been so valuable to have these conversations in advance of the baby's arrival! better to have these conversations whilst we're not totally exhausted and stressed.

    Sian

  • On a professional level as a Midwife, it would be amazing if more families used resources like this to prepare and plan for such a big transition in their lives together (and) really help to set families off on the best track

    Caroline, midwife

  • Rachel has a very kind and attentive approach and seems to intuitively know the right questions to ask to get you thinking of things from new perspectives you didn't see before that can help highlight the unknowns and lead to some new ways of thinking and the flowering of different answers.

    Coaching client

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