The most important responsibility in the world… parenting. Together, let’s find ways to make it more joyful.

FSMN Joyful Effective Parenting is an opportunity for supportive mentorship and consultation with Forest School of Minnesota founder, developer, and teacher Michele del Castillo, to support your parenting and your dedication in guiding your child into the life skills that will be a lifelong asset to them. Michele has 36 years of childhood and parent teaching experience. She brought and developed the first early years nature immersion preschool to the US, forging a pathway to bring young children back to the joys of early childhood and experiencing the wonder and respect for nature. She would like to share that wisdom with more families.

She offers you support in these way:

  • Identifying your parenting goals

  • Establishing Boundries for effective positive discipline

  • Establishing calming daily rhythms

  • Cultivating Enjoyable Mealtimes

  • Creating cooperative daily routines

  • Effective Parenting Language

  • Tantrum Reduction

  • Creating Positive Sibling Interaction

  • Supporting Age Appropriate Independence and skill ability

  • Supporting Age Appropriate Social Skills

  • Supporting Manners and Boundaries

  • Establishing effective Bedtime Routines

  • Departure Routines

  • School Preparations

  • Homework Struggles

    Simplifying ~ Supporting ~ Creating ~ Bringing more joy into your family home

Parent Consulting is available for all in our community. Email Michele, Michele@forestschoolmn.org and we will arrange a time for a call to determine if this service is right for you.

Parenting Workshop Group Together we will take a weekend morning (one and a half to two hours) nature walk to work on strategies that will bring effective strategies to your parenting, engaging more cooperation and cohesion into your home life, and less stress to you and your child. One parent $100 $175 for both parents (limited to six parents in a group)

Individual Parenting Consultation What To Expect:
We will begin our phone consultation, pinpointing areas of support you should like to implement in your family structure and daily life. Then we will schedule a follow call or nature walk to bring forth actions for you to put into practice. During our time together, we will identify areas that will be of benefit to your parenting, implementing new parenting tools and ideas to bring improvement to your family life. Rate $65 for one hour session