Meet the Resilient Kids Advisory Group
Madeleine Taylor
Madeleine has worked as a Parent Educator since 1992. She is also a Registered Social Worker and a Certified Coach and Mediator. Her training credentials include:
- Family Therapy
- Travellers' Programme trainer
- Seasons for Growth facilitator
- Parenting through Separation facilitator
- Certified Facilitator of “How Much is Enough?” Programme by internationally recognised parenting expert, Jean Illsley Clarke.
- Author and Facilitator of Parenting Road Code
Madeleine brings 27 years of consulting experience across a range of sectors, including Private Enterprise, Not-for-Profit, Government, and private clients. She also conducts training workshops in Negotiation and in Managing Difficult Behaviour.
From 2014 (until the Covid Pandemic), Madeleine has travelled to Bangladesh each year to lead Emotional Intelligence training for businesses and students.
Madeleine has been married to her husband, Wayne, for 32 years. Together they have raised three sons to independence, and learnt a lot along the way. They live in and enjoy the wonderful Wellington region of New Zealand.
Madeleine is a Board Member of Mothers’ Network, an organisation that supports the woman behind the mother.
Stuart Ayres
Bernice Williams
Hugh Good
What’s driving a culture of overindulgence?
The pressures placed on parents from marketing hype, social media, and communities have collectively laid the groundwork for too many parents to fall into the trap of overindulging their children.
Unfortunately, research findings support that children who are parented in this way, grow into adults who lack resilience, confidence and everyday coping skills.
Do you have a child who has trouble:
- learning how to delay gratification
- giving up status as the constant centre of attention
- being competent in everyday skills, self-care skill and skills relating to others
- developing a sense of personal identity
- knowing what is enough or what is “normal” for others?
Time to learn some new parenting skills
Resilient Kids has developed a comprehensive set of parenting resources, parenting coaching and parenting workshops to help parents, caregivers and teachers to raise responsible, respectful and resilient children.
"The lasting impact for me is to see the joy in a commitment to raising Resilient Children. Your training provides an understanding of a growing problem which impacts in so many ways, relationships in families, communities, business and educational organisations and that given the right tool kit and commitment to change, how this can be easily turned around and in turn the benefits of which are like the ripples in a pond, they reach out and touch many lives for the greater good. Your work is essential for the age we live in. I hope your message is blasted out to the whole country so that we can become a Resilient Nation."
Janine Wallace – participant at Raising Resilient Children Retreat