Constructive Tools
for Happy Families

What is it and Why is it for me?

Life changing support for parents! If you’re a parent who believes deeply in raising your children with respect, compassion, and in modelling healthy communication, yet find yourself stuck in cycles of frustration, reactive habits, or inherited patterns that don’t align with the calm, confident, joyful parent you want to be, you are not alone—and this is for you.

Work in Progress Parenting is a supported learning haven designed entirely for parents like you- imperfectly committed to raising secure, happy, resilient kids while wrestling with the sheer overwhelm that we face as parents or caregivers, in spite of our best intentions. Each day we are grappling to bridge the gap between who we want to be for our kids, and the tools we actually have to be that person. And in that gap, we inevitably face guilt, shame, hopelessness, exhaustion and so much more, which make change feel completely out of reach. But, this is where Work in Progress Parenting comes in - with practical help for real, rapid change - that starts with you.

What kind of change?

The scope of change is truly limitless, and working with me is just the launchpad for your endless progress. Some of the central pillars we’ll establish are:

Confidence through connection: building secure attachments and authentic connection rather than control, fostering trust, and mutual respect with your children.
Breaking generational cycles: encouraging healing personal wounds and limiting beliefs to parent from a place of deep understanding, ensuring children grow into resilient, empowered individuals without inherited trauma.
Holistic personal growth: viewing parenting as a journey of leadership, where adults model emotional regulation, healthy boundaries, and joyful play, creating ripple effects for families and society.
Non-judgmental support: embracing imperfection, offering tools for real-life challenges like anger, conflict, and overwhelm, while honouring individual values and boundaries.
Emotionally intelligent communication: immediately applicable tools for creating collaborative, peaceful communication, founded on transparency, respect, and identifying underlying needs.

Ok, but how?

With a compassionate, science-backed roadmap to transform your parenting, and with it, your life!

Work in Progress Parenting is parent-centric. This is not a behaviour modification approach for your children, nor is it about memorising scripts or tactics. My work is all about you, the parent, as the true catalyst for change. The emphasis is on parenting through genuine connection rather than control, equipping you with practical resources that you can you can rely on in all seasons of your parenting journey. Through personalised guidance, we’ll work together on understanding your particular patterns, obstacles and needs - drawing from a proven, science-backed framework to build lasting self-awareness, resilience, clarity, calm and empathy that you can carry into every area of your life.

This sequence of guided study and exploration creates root-level personal change, helping you to gain a profound understanding of yourself and your children. With it, you can realise your full potential as a sincerely present, anchored parent and, in turn, empower your children to grow and thrive in mutual security, understanding and compassion.

Parenting isn't about perfection —it's about progress, and I am here to help you on your path to a deeply connected, peaceful family.

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How do you know?

My name is Adrienne Crenshaw. I am a certified Parent Support Specialist based in Perthshire, Scotland. I am trained through the Jai Institute for Parenting, with additional certification in Early Years Neuroscience.

But more practically- I am a parent, facing the same triumphs and challenges as you every day, always striving to improve, even when I had no idea how. The tools I want to share with you changed my life - and I know first hand that they are critical to the happiness and well being of every home. Not only because they illuminated the precious connection I have with my kids, but every relationship I have — especially the one I have with myself.

At the start of my career, I studied and worked in international relations and law— motivated to contribute in some small way to world peace. After having my kids I realised there was no greater contribution I could make to fostering peace in the world than by helping to nurture it within families.
And that power lies in the conscious progression of how we parent.