Parent Magic

You could be the most organised professional in your business. You may command the highest respect from your colleagues. You may even be super efficient and totally calm under pressure...so why is it that your children can walk all over you?! !

This is the question I asked myself over four years ago when, as a highly professional and organised teacher, I realised that my own children were...simply ignoring me! I was teaching teenage boys and girls at the time, who stood back politely in the corridors to let me pass. I was a very organised and conscientious teacher, rarely absent and always prepared. My students just knew not to mess with me!

When I returned home, my energy was drained and I had to go from being 'Super Teacher' to 'Super Parent' with no time to myself in between. It is hard to flick that switch for both parents and when baby number four arrived I came to a startling realisation... my children were completely running my home! !

In a frantic effort to reclaim my territory I submerged myself in 'Parenting books'. In short, they didn't work! My four year old son was still using his three year old sister as a punch bag and I was still... demented!

The trips in the car were the worst. From the minute they got into the car they were fighting. I changed the car to a seven-seater, it just increased their imagination as to how to throw a dig from a distance!

My break point came when my daughter walked into me one day with clumps of her own hair in her hands and announced that her brother had 'given her a hair cut!' When I finally lifted my jaw off the floor I spun her round to see at least six inches missing in places and half a fringe where there had been none! My son arrived, scissors in hand and a glint in his eye. 'No more', I shouted, 'enough!' I was really shouting at myself.

A short time later I got a call from a friend living in New York. She casually asked why I wasn't using 1-2-3-Magic. 'Magic' sounded promising and I was desperate! Within two weeks of introducing 1-2-3 Magic to my children, I had reclaimed my home! I was the boss, calm and in control. They were a little put out by the radical change in the house but I noticed something else, the number of fights had plummeted and they were a lot happier. Not perfect, but not crazy anymore!

Today, as the director of the Morgan Institute of Advance Learning I am busier than ever and my pressures at work have probably increased. My husband and I are still using 1-2-3 Magic with our children. Although we have a few slips now and again, our home is still a nice place to live in, for all of us!

My story is not unusual. When both parents are working full time the pressures are enormous. They are even bigger if parents are no longer living together. It is possible to enjoy your career and enjoy your children at the same time.

It is essential for everyone's sanity that you are the boss in your home. Let us show you how! This is a fun, simple programme where you do not need to be saint, psychologist or genius to get it right. And trust me, it works!

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