“The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.” –O. A. Battista
Parent Coaching
Stop Managing Behavior. Start Building Connection.
I help overwhelmed Christian parents stop reacting to behavior and start building lifelong connection.
Parenting challenges rarely begin with a lack of love. You love your children deeply. But in the pressure of everyday life, old patterns, emotional triggers, exhaustion, and fear can take over.
My coaching isn't about giving you another list of techniques to make your child behave.
Together, we'll look beneath the behavior—both your child's and your own—and use the GRACE Pathway™ to help you become more grounded, regulated, connected, courageous, and confident in the way you lead your family.
1:1 Parent Coaching
Personalized support for the parent who wants lasting change.
This should be your core coaching offer.
Parents come to you with the presenting problem:
"My child won't listen."
But your coaching begins asking deeper questions:
Why does this behavior affect me so strongly?
What happens inside me before I react?
What does my child need from me in this moment?
How can I set limits without shame, threats, or disconnection?
Through private coaching, you'll help parents identify their triggers, understand family-of-origin influences, regulate their responses, strengthen connection, repair ruptures, and lead with calm authority.
Couples Parent Coaching
Get on the Same Parenting Team.
One of the biggest problems couples face isn't that either parent doesn't care.
It's that they parent differently.
One becomes stricter.
The other becomes more permissive.
One corrects.
The other rescues.
Then the child's behavior becomes secondary because now the parents are fighting about parenting.
This program helps couples understand why each of them parents the way they do and develop a shared approach rooted in grace, connection, and healthy authority.
This could be particularly powerful given your experience not only as a parent coach and longtime pastor but also working alongside Daphne in marriage mentoring.
What you would work on
Family-of-origin parenting patterns, individual triggers, conflict around discipline, different parenting styles, emotional regulation, presenting a united front, healthy limits and boundaries, repair after conflict, and creating shared family values.
And I would incorporate something unique:
His Story + Her Story → Our Family Story
Each parent explores what they inherited from their own family of origin.
Then you help them decide:
"What do we want to carry forward—and what ends with us?"
PARENTING FROM GRACE FOR CHURCHES
Your Church's Parent Coaching Partner
Equip Parents. Strengthen Families. Build a Culture of Grace.
What if every parent in your church had someone they could turn to when parenting gets difficult?
Churches invest tremendous time and resources into children's ministry, student ministry, marriage ministry, and family discipleship. Yet many parents struggle to apply what they believe on Sunday to the challenges they face at home on Monday.
Parents are navigating emotional meltdowns, defiance, anxiety, technology, strained relationships, and the lingering influence of their own childhood experiences.
They love their children deeply. They want to raise them in faith. But when frustration takes over, they often find themselves responding in ways they later regret.
And while pastors and ministry leaders genuinely want to help, they don't always have the time, training, or resources to provide ongoing parenting support.
That's where Parenting from Grace comes in.
Through a partnership with your church, Dave Cales serves as a dedicated parent coaching resource, working alongside your ministry team to equip parents with biblical wisdom, practical tools, and connection-based parenting strategies.
Rather than offering another one-time parenting seminar, Dave helps churches develop a sustainable culture of grace-filled parenting—one that strengthens families, supports ministry leaders, and equips parents to lead their homes with greater confidence and connection.
