Coach Lee IS
PCI Certified Parent Coach
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Coach Lee Contributes 10% of her earning to:
Heifer's Gifts Means Hope For the Future "Giving to Heifer means giving someone a permanent victory over hunger, poverty and environmental degradation." |
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Coach Lee's Bio | |
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Lee was born in Reno, Nevada, and moved to Seattle, Washington at eight years of age. She is the oldest of five children and has been told she became a “Little Mother” soon after her first sibling arrived – two years later. This was not ALL good! For example, when Lee was four she renamed her sister Lynn, “Susie,” (which stuck all the way through Susie’s elementary school years) much to her parents’ dismay! Lee has worked with children all her life. While in college she worked with emotionally disturbed children at the Children’s Home Society of Washington. During this time, she began to realize that this was her “niche” in life. Children and Lee “connected.” She understood them and could help them function better in the world. But, it was too late to change majors, as her husband entered the Army. Lee graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in political science. With two children soon to come, the new Army family set out for 19 moves in 30 years! Like most of us, Lee discovered parenting was hard – raising children, even when you love them more then anything else in the world, takes more then just wanting to do a good job. As an extension of her own parenting education, Lee learned about Parent Effectiveness Training in 1978. “I loved my children, (and I’d been a “Little Mother” for forever), but I didn’t know some basic truths about raising them… primarily how to help children grow and “become” someone, without taking on their jobs as mine. I did not understand how helping fundamentally undermined people of any age and worst of all for me, those I wanted so to encourage and support. I read the PET book by Dr. Thomas Gordon and it changed both my parenting skills and my basic “relationshipping” skills with other people. It was a tremendous eye-opener, and I recommend it still today. I maintain my certification as a PET instructor, and although I am not currently active as a Family Effectiveness Trainer, I reference the techniques often and direct parents to both the web site and the books Dr. Thomas Gordon has written.” In the late 1970’s, as her two children grew, Lee re-entered the professional work force – still focused on children. She began working in civilian child care centers. In 1980, Lee entered the Army’s Child Development Services (CDS) system, evolving along with CDS, and eventually holding almost every CDS position that existed during her 25 years employment. Her resume includes:
Although Lee retired from the CDS system, shortly before her husband retired from the Army, she has maintained her teaching ties with Ft. Lewis families. She has taught classes for the Parent University and continues to be a requested presenter at the Ft. Lewis Women’s Conference. Additionally she works with Army families, when requested, to assist the families of deployed Army personnel with parenting issues. She too has literally “Been there, done that.” Now, as the mother of children having children, Lee continues to work on the spectacular relationships she has with her grown children, and build new heart-to-heart relationships with children-in-law and grandchildren. For five years (until her death in 2006) they “parented” Michor’s 94 yr old mother and continuing to care for his developmentally disabled sister (age 67) who also lives with them. Lee and Michor have been married 37 years and live on a 6-acre farm. Their home has become gathering point for an extended family of siblings, nieces, nephews and friends. Living on a small farm, with all kinds of animals, parenting now includes cows, turkeys, pheasants, chickens, dogs, cats, and whatever wildlife strolls through and stays a while. “Our parenting is still both a work in progress and a continuing educational experience for all!” “I come to Parent Coaching as one who has walked the talk – not perfectly, of course, but well enough to have been asked for help by others who watch me parent. I consider that a huge compliment. It is my DESIRE to continue exploring and explaining the spectacular, sacred souls that are our children, as best I can. It is my GOAL to help the parents of those souls feel as spectacular, as supported, and as valued in this parenting job as I can. It’s been my calling – all my life.” |
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