Consultancy and Parenting Support

I’m Ahlia, a proud Lazy Parent

For years I have worked in the space of domestic and family violence, specialising in child and youth specific work, as well as trauma support, group work, community education and engagement, housing, and homelessness. 

I was fortunate enough to be trained in some amazing programs and facilitate them to community

When I went on maternity leave, I didn’t feel I had space to return to crisis work, newborn babies aren’t too receptive to being woken at 2am for a work crisis. Since then, I’ve worked in the NDIS space, and strengthened my passion for parenting support and programs

I began facilitating mothers’ groups and was fortunate to create some incredible spaces

This leading me to start the lazy parent. 

Ways to combine years of practical support to both parents and services. 

To share knowledge and support

To decrease isolation and increase support

In short to support you in the way you need to flourish, either in a workplace or a home setting

Having spent years working in the space of healthy and unhealthy relationships. One of my key learnings from this time was the power of our everyday language, this notion of the power a single word can hold. How one word can change an entire sentence meaning, how we can set the tone by a mere emotional attachment we hold to a word

In fact, that was my motivation for reclaiming lazy!

So many times, in my parenting journey I negatively found myself using lazy or other shameful words. In hindsight when I thought I was being “Lazy” what I was actually doing was parenting in a way that was right for me and my family. It got me thinking what would it look like if instead of 'lazy' being used as a bad phrase we used it to restructure our parenting into simpler ways that worked for us. Ways that were easy, with strategies that made sense, in finding ways to take the pressure off ourselves, our kids and our journeys

So often I see parents feeling like they are failing when in reality have you actually just never been encouraged or supported to find a parenting style that works for you