Personalized Parent Consulting
What actually is parent consulting?
Parent consulting is a service to help you make informed decisions during the many challenges of parenthood. Raising children creates so many opportunities to make decisions and it’s often hard to know the right answer. Many of us can suffer from analysis paralysis or just get overwhelmed by opinions and research. During your time with Karyn, she’ll get to know your personal questions and what is important to your family. She’ll weed through the research and will eliminate what is irrelevant, dated, or problematic in its academic or statistical quality. Instead of boring you with the methodological details, she’ll integrate that research with thoughtful additional information from non-academic sources, and her own experiences of what works best for children based on her decades of experience. No question is too big or too small. Parent consulting can be a one-time occurrence to guide you during an acute period of change, or can include ongoing support.
My goal is to provide clear and actionable advice, based on research and completely tailored to your family.
How much does it cost?
Many questions can be answered in our first hour-long call ($120), and any helpful information I can share during that time will be shared. My goal is to help you come away with some new perspectives and action steps in that first hour. If we both agree that additional research and a written summary would be helpful, I’ll charge a research fee of $185. This includes several hours of research, summarizing all insights into a clear and actionable document. A follow-up call anytime after our first conversation is $80.
We can have additional calls anytime you have new questions!
What are some examples of questions you can answer?
To see some examples of consulting support by developmental stage, click on an age range below:
Be informed.
Before you buy an appliance or hire an assistant, you probably do extensive research. In preparing for an election or big game, you probably visit statistical websites to find out what the data would say. Why is it that we don’t address parenting with the same scientific mindset? The science exists, the data exists, the research questions exist. I provide the answers that reduce the confusion and chaos we live as parents.