Trinity Midwifery
Consulting For Families
Lael Stimming has worked with families for over two decades.
As a mother of four herself, Lael is intimately familiar with the challenges facing parents in the 21st century. Lael emphasizes structure and rhythm, as well as age-appropriate boundaries. She has been a midwife for over twenty years and worked with parents using Waldorf methodology as well as principles of Magda Gerbers RIE approach.
As parents continue to face the ever-growing challenges of how to safely guide their children through childhood and adolescence with social media, cyber bullying, smart phones and all the technology that continues to make its way into the lives of children, Lael is well versed on guiding parents with healthy boundary setting, appropriate discipline and loving compassion.
If you would like to know more, please reach out.
An Aside
I have seen so many parents over the years struggle with boundary setting and discipline and one of the tools I have come to use is a simple explanation of the word and the historical meaning of discipline. The root word of discipline is “disciple, “which is derived from the Latin word for student which is discipulus. In a way our children are our students, and we are there to guide and teach them along the way to adulthood. To discipline is to be a good teacher and healthy adult figure in the lives of our children.
As parents navigate their way through the challenges of educating their children both in the home and within the school system of their choosing I often remind parents that the child needs to be happy, healthy and safe first. Once a child is happy, healthy and safe, then the child can take up learning. Without the first three it would be difficult for a child to learn. Therefor, happy, healthy, safe, and then learning!
Lael Stimming
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Colossians 3:14