Tag Archives: Parenting Experts

The best match

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The thing that attracts me most to Wizpert is the people I meet. I really like helping people, but it’s who these people are that keeps me coming back. Wizpert has a great matching system so it helps me relate to everyone I talk to, who mostly have trouble with relationships. I’ve been with my significant other for over 6 years now and we’ve had many ups and downs. Everyone I meet has stories that are just like mine and we always help each other!

- Justine Taylor

Wizpert is an online advice platform that connects users with experts on a variety of topics. To chat with Justine or one of our other wizperts, click the button below.

Relationship Problems? Look Inside Yourself

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Half of the inquiries I receive on Wizpert are from young people, college students, dating or trying to date and often in those so called ‘long distance relationships’.

And the other half are from parents of young children, where the spouses are having problems in their relationship and are worried about the impact on their children.

So many people are looking for answers often when they are facing huge challenges in their relationships: infidelity, standing at the brink of divorce.

So what can you do? Yes your partner is not giving you what you want. Yes you have big challenges to overcome on the outside but what changes need to be made to resolve these urgent issues?

The real change comes when YOU step away from saying “he or she doesn’t meet any of MY expectations” When you look inside yourself, begin to understand more about yourself and ask yourself: “Who do I need to be in order to attract and/or keep the kind of lover and relationship I want?”

As relationship coaches, we can help and work with you to connect with others and create a relationship that is loving and lasting. You can make it happen, if you are willing to do the work inside.

I am very passionate about what I do, people are meant to and can live happy lives, enjoy support from each other in your relationship, and it is crucially important as parents, to give an example of a loving and strong relationship to the children, so that they too will have a good start and foundation for their own relationships as adults.

- Sarah

The Parenting Expert Quiz

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Some parents are true experts – ones who are looked-up to for advice and coaching on parenting issues. Over years of observation, I’ve devised this brief quiz that will help you determine whether you are an expert parent.  Check out the test interpretation below after responding.

To the test:

1.  Do friends regularly call you to consult about issues and questions related to parenting?

2.  Do you often ask yourself: “what could I do to be a better parent”?

3.  Do you have a clear vision of the values that you would like to raise your children on?

4.  Think of a parenting related topic that you recently researched online/elsewhere. Could you articulate the most relevant findings to someone in a similar situation.

5.  Do you regularly post content of any kind that is related to parenting (blogs, comments, columns, etc.)?

6.  Do you enjoy helping others by sharing your experience and advice?

If you answer ‘yes’ to at least 2 of the questions, you are indeed an expert, and should consider signing-up on Wizpert, where you can help other parents over a phone-call at your convenience.  You can even charge users for you time, once your rating is high enough – Wizpert takes care of billing.

We are currently signing-up experts by invitation only, and I would like to invite you to sign-up on www.wizpert.com, using this code: a5500.  It’s free and takes under 5 minutes!

Go to: www.wizpert.com, and enter code: a5500

Parenting Experts

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Where do you go to get credible advice about how to raise your children? The classic parenting expert is Grandma – but does she always know best? Another prominent parenting expert in parent’s lives is the Pediatrician – but what happens when you need advice which doesn’t necessarily directly relate to your children’s health?

Coaches as Parenting Experts

When you think of a Coach (no not the sports related type) you usually think of a professional who helps guide you through your career, relationship and life in general. There are quite a number of coaches out there who specialise in parent coaching. If you think of it, parenting is a life long challenge just as a career or marital relationship is.

An example of an institute which specializes in training parent coaches is thepci.com. There are also online directories where you can find a parenting coach near you, such as www.thecoaches.com.

Social Workers as Parenting Experts

Social workers are not only trained to work with families and children, by virtue of their job they tend to see the most challenging cases in the community. The experience they gain over the years along with their ability to emphathize with people allow them to be a prime resource for parents looking for advice and expertise. The largest listing of social workers can be found at www.helppro.com

Counselors as Parenting Experts

Another certified and experienced resource for parents is the Counselor. Councelors interact with both parents and children and should be used not only in a situation where a child is causing problems but also as an expert that parents can turn to in order to help prevent future issues through correct parenting. The National Board of Certified Counselors lists these parenting experts at http://www.nbcc.org/directory/FindCounselors.aspx.

Family Therapists as Parenting Experts

As with the professionals listed above, Family Therapists have seen a lot of bad parenting and are tasked with helping parents to develop some very robust parenting skills in order to help dig them and their children out of the deep ditch which they have dug for themselves. The American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy has a listing of these parenting experts at http://www.aamft.org

Super Parents as Parenting Experts

For some parenting related questions a certified professional is not necessarily the best parenting expert to contact, for example:
- What is the best stroller to buy?
- What are the best schools in my area?
- What is a good technique to get my kids to eat veggitables?
- How do I prepare my children for a trip to a developing country?

In these cases you have “Super Parents” parents who have been there before, have done their research and have made the mistakes that you can learn from. A great way to connect with these parents is a community or forum such as www.cafemom.com.