Billie Carrington is the founder and co-developer of One Step Ahead Parenting website. Billie’s own personal life journey led her to a burning desire to take what her parents gave her as a child and grow that into something even better.
Tell Me What To Do
Out of self exploration came an identification of the emotions, patterns and triggers that would hinder her as a parent. Once Billie knew what the pitfalls might look like, she still needed to figure out what to do differently and how to do to become the best parent she could be.
Billie recognized that any mentor she found would be making recommendations that would go against her natural instincts to over-react and try to control her children. So the challenge was to be extremely selective in who she would follow and to choose wisely.
Searching For The Right Expert
Billie began her search for a parenting expert who could put into words a plan that would act as a blueprint for her to follow as a parent when faced with challenging situations. Natural instinct is a powerful influence, so she knew that to rely on a parenting system would mean it would have to be simple, where under stress it would be as automatic as getting up and brushing her teeth in the morning. She knew how easy it was to fall into old patterns and then regret her overreaction moments later.
What Billie found is that most parenting experts agree about the value of parents understanding themselves and their past experiences with their parents and caretakers. Check, she had that. The next thing she found was that most parenting experts throw out numerous tips for the wide variety of parenting challenges. While many of these were valuable and sometimes entertaining, Billie was left unsatisfied.
What Do I Say When?
Just at the point of sheer frustration about whether she would find a parenting expert with a system, Billie met Sandra Dye. They became great friends and over the course of time, Billie kept asking Sandra what she, as a child psychotherapist was telling parents so that they could be better parents. What was the plan? What do parents say when…?
Since psychotherapists work to help parents find their own answers, Sandra was not used to working out of a teaching model. Yet, out of the ongoing discussions between Billie and Sandra was born this amazing system that Billie coined One Step Ahead Parenting. Finally she found a system, which would keep her on track during moments she might feel like jumping all over her kids or throwing her hands in the air in utter frustration.
The Proof Is In The Results
Billie has raised her 19 and 16 year son and daughter with this system and continues to deepen her ability to connect to have positive influence every day. She has applied the same principles learned through this system in her relationships with others at work as a CEO, with colleagues and in her marriage.
Spreading The Word
Billie knows the pain of not connecting and is dedicated to bringing the message to parents around the world that there is a powerfully effective system that while taking consistent effort, allowed her to go way beyond where she thought possible as a parent. She wants to share the power of this system to help parents around the world. From hard earned experience, Billie knows that reaction mode parenting may achieve immediate compliance, but is likely build thick walls, barriers and layers of resistance. Now Billie parents from the heart, connected, growing and positively influencing.
Bring Together A Community Of Parents Supporting One Another
As a teacher, CEO and parent Billie’s next challenge is to empower other parents through this website to grow and become more than they ever thought possible. She has dedicated herself to building a community of parents working together within the One Step Ahead Parenting System In order to achieve this. She will be an active participant in this community, sharing her experiences and encouraging other parents as they strive to be the best they can be.
