Be the parent you long to be…

…by reframing, not shaming, your parenthood.

“Rewards and punishments don’t work. While they may cause a child to modify their behavior, it’s at the expense of your childs’ self-esteem and healthy sense of autonomy. At Pivotal Parenting, changing behavior isn’t the focus: It’s the parents and their connection with their children that we nurture. Our tools to build strong connections are knowledge, active listening, gentleness, self-forgiveness, and empathy, without any blame or shame. Once the connection is reinforced, challenging behaviors resolve themselves.” -Karli Silva

Karli “Noëlle” Silva, owner and founder of Pivotal Parenting, is a professional Master Parent Coach, trained at the Jai Institute for Parenting. She is passionate about helping parents better connect with their kids so as to raise confident, compassionate, and intelligent children. Karli has an M.A. in Educational Psychology, with a Teaching License in Early Childhood Teaching, as well as over 20 years of experience working with children and parents in a wide variety of settings, including public and private schools.

The unique gifts Karli brings to parent coaching are authenticity, empathy, and intuition. These allow her to perceive what a child is trying to express with his/her/their behavior. They also enable her to identify the primary challenges for the parents.

Working with Karli had a massive positive impact on our home life and our relationship with our son.-Aubrey H.

Having worked with parents and children for over 20 years, and having children with special needs herself, Karli knows intimately the hardships that parents face on a daily basis. Her life experiences give her deep insight into how best to incorporate conscious parenting into families’ lives. 

Karli helps parents create more cooperation, connection, and joy with their children. Often times parents come to Pivotal Parenting because they are at the end of their rope with their child. They believe the problem lies in their child’s behavior, and if they could only get their child to stop x, y, and z, and instead do a, b, and c, all would be better. This represents a common misunderstanding of behavior. In fact, strategies aimed at behavior modification only make problems worse, not better! As parents raise the stakes in the form of rewards, consequences, and time outs, children often become more defiant. Meanwhile, their self-esteem erodes, and any separation between parent and child turns into a chasm. At Pivotal Parenting, Karli Silva does something different. She teaches parents to understand their child’s behavior through a lens of modern neuroscience. Furthermore, she show parents how to work with their child’s behavior to create the connection and cooperation they long for.

Many parents experience a gap between what they had hoped their parenting would be like, and their daily reality with their children. AND many of us swore we would never be like our parents, yet we are at our wits’ end when we find ourselves yelling the very same words our parents yelled at us. At Pivotal Parenting, Karli Silva combines over a decade of teaching experience with a Nonviolent Parenting approach; an approach based on modern neuroscience that can help you to raise confident, compassionate and intelligent children.

I provide SOS sessions for parents facing acute challenges with their children. In these sessions I work with you to distill the root of your challenge. Then, I introduce next-steps for re-establishing connection with your child.

I also offer a 12-week program for parents seeking complete transformation in their families. In the 12-Week Pivotal Parenting Program you will receive 12 weekly personalized coaching sessions with me, as well as have access to internet resources to teach you about your child’s brain development, and the parenting practices that maximize your child’s potential. Specifically, I will work with you to:

• Let go of how you were parented so that you can be present with your child.

• Give you tools to set limits peacefully, resolve tantrums, and create natural cooperation.

• Build a strong connection to your child that is rooted in trust.

• Give you insight into brain science and parenting that supports optimal brain development in your child.

Contact me today to schedule a free session and learn how I can help you to create the transformation in you family that you long for.

Phone: 720-273-2529

Email: pivotalparentingcoach@gmail.com

Address: 5986 Brandywine Ct., Boulder CO 80301