Parents, just like you, are experiencing life changing results & living the life they have always dreamed of with their kids…
Inside the Fresh Start Experience, we don’t just give you theories & positive parenting basics that you’ve heard before. We deep dive into step-by-step guidance & actionable tools to implement right way.
You learn how to effectively implement positive parenting. No need to continue to scramble through stacks of books & scroll through endless Instagram accounts to find the support you are looking for.
These families prove it doesn’t take magic pills or years of implementation to see results – it just takes the right kind of support, psychology based proven strategies & mentors you can trust (and that you can relate to).
An immersive positive parenting experience WORKS.
Allison
mom of 3
Allison loves how Fresh Start Family provides not only parenting coaching, but life coaching as well. She shares that each of her children have experienced huge transformations through the work she has done.
Abby
mom of 3
Abby had always loved the idea of Positive Parenting, but was lost on how to actually implement in into her life. Now, after being a part of the Fresh Start Experience, she feels empowered & confident, seeing the results of consistent implementation.
So excited for all the small victories that are happening day in, day out in our home. They really do add up and I feel so proud. This group has been a life changer. It took the words /theories /strategies of positive parenting and helped me bring them to fruition in our day to day life as a family. Forever grateful!
It has actually been MIRACULOUS the difference in my kids’ behaviors since I joined the Bonfire. It’s ASTONISHING. My sons communicate so much better. My oldest child’s emotional intelligence and critical thinking skills have grown leaps and bounds in just a few months. I’m so grateful for Fresh Start Family!
The education & support Wendy provides in The Bonfire is meaningful and is making a difference in our home. She is so relatable because of her real world experience that she shares so openly & honestly through her teaching & coaching. The Bonfire weekly coaching sessions and monthly lessons & print outs are a continuous part of our learning and help me stay committed to growing into the husband and dad I need to be.
FAMILIES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
Our community is made up of parents of all kinds with different age groups and unique challenges, but one thing we have in common is that we ALL have a huge desire to expand our hearts, learn new tools & strengthen our family.
Once we realize there is stress in our parenting walk & homes, we can not sit back & just let it keep going. We are action takers who are dedicated to creating legacies of our dreams & raising our children with dignity, connection & joy.
The Fresh Start Experience is designed with you in mind.
We know what it’s like to struggle with feeling defeated.
We provide you with the first steps to take on your journey into being a confident, empowered parent through the Fresh Start Experience.
This immersive positive parenting experience works no matter how lost you feel, how “too far gone” your kids seem to be, or how strong willed your littles are. It is not too late & you are in the perfect place to start.
Rachel
mom of 4
Rachel now feels empowered, motivated and equipped to handle any situation that comes her way. She loves being a part of a supportive community of like minded families from around the world where she feels seen & knows she is never alone.
Chandni
mom of 2
Chandni loves the level of support the Fresh Start Experience provides – it goes WAY beyond what you receive on the podcast or at any free challenge/workshop. She has experienced tremendous personal growth and says she is a completely different person than she was a year ago.
I really want to thank Fresh Start Family for all the training I’ve gotten through the Foundations Course & Bonfire Membership Program. It has not only helped me with my own kids but communication with other adults as well.
Our house has been SO MUCH MORE PEACEFUL since finishing the Foundations Course! My boys are fighting less, we are having less power struggles, both my husband and I are happier and it’s just more fun to parent these days. I am excited to learn and implement more! Thanks Wendy Snyder for the awesome teaching!
Before I started this program, I truly felt defeated as a mom and personally just in disgust with myself knowing how inconsistent and horrible I was being to my daughter and sad to say, my husband too! The Foundations Course has given me love and light as a mommy to know that each day is a new day and to practice patience and give myself grace.
YOU WANT TO FEEL CONFIDENT & SUCCESSFUL
So many of us just want more joy in our parenting walk.
To end the struggle of feeling alone & at our wits end.
We want a life where we are in control. In control of our own thoughts, behaviors as parents & our future as firm kind leaders of our homes.
A life we look forward to living each day where our kids listen, we act out of integrity, discipline with dignity & where we feel at peace when we lay our head on our pillow at night.
We deserve more than just the promise of joyful parenting.
We want positive parenting to become a way of life and know without a doubt we are capable of handling any situation that comes our way (no matter how triggering).
Our Success Story Google Doc
filled with real life stories of positive transformation from our Fresh Start Experience members is now over 800 pages long! >> We want to add your name & story to the list too
You can change your life. And, I will help you.
I left a full time corporate job that I loved to follow my calling to be a stay at home mom. It was going to be AMAZING…so I thought. 💩 quickly hit the fan & I became a version of myself that I had never known before.
I suddenly started to feel anxious, angry, frustrated & irritated ALL. THE. TIME. I believed I was destined to spend my motherhood in this state. I got the help I needed & I proved myself wrong.
I want to help you get to higher ground. You will see and believe it is possible for you too.
You can become the parent you’ve always imagined. It starts with learning how to shift your mindset & ditch the old beliefs that are holding you back. I’ll teach you why you resort to the yelling, threats & punishments. Why you yell or threaten by 8:00am when you promised yourself you wouldn’t.
You won’t be confused on how to create positive change in your home. You will learn strategies to immediately implement with your kiddos. Small changes will lead to massive results within yourself & within your family. You will create the family of your dreams, just like I did.
It’s my mission to teach parents how to transform their parenting from the inside out. I’ve taught 1000’s. Will you be next?
Elizabeth
mom of 2
Elizabeth loves how she now how tools to break the generational, hand-me-down ways of parenting. She shares an example of how she felt empowered with the knowledge & verbiage to use to talk to her dad after an interaction with her daughter.
Elisa
mom of 3
Elisa and her husband tried everything out there and never found success. She loves the feeling of HOPE she experiences as a part of the Fresh Start Experience & has already started to see transformation within herself and family.
I’ve finished the Foundations Course and things are really starting to feel more fluid! After a challenging situation with my 6 year old son yesterday, I was able to remain calm & respond with firm kindness & integrity, as well as teach using compassionate discipline. It felt so good to have connection with him instead of doing what I may have done in the past – snap to anger and give him a lecture about how I’m his mom and he needs to be respectful. This new way I’ve learned to parent him & teach him important life lessons feels so much better!
I used to fear picking my kids up from daycare/pre-school just knowing what was ahead. Now my perspective has changed tremendously and I can’t speak highly enough about Wendy and Fresh Start Family courses. It not only saved our family, but strengthened the relationship with my husband which was an added bonus! Our entire family is beginning to gain such strong trust and respect for one another and I feel more empowered than ever.
Thank you Fresh Start Family for introducing us to the Foundations Course! It has been freeing to be at choice with our parenting, to be on the same page, to bring more light and joy to intense power struggles, and to see progress in each day! Our son is learning ways to self calm, re-do, and use his energy for good. We are learning new ways to be proactive, make agreements, give more choices and teach in a calm time. Expanding our toolkit has been transformational for our family.
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MORE TESTIMONIALS:
Our boys are doing so great! I have a new lens that I look through when we face parenting struggles that helps me realize their behavior is usually a direct reflection of our relationship with each other … and how I respond vs react to their big emotions and choices.
It’s so humbling to parent this way and assume integrity with our kids.
We are learning together, guiding each other, and as parents my husband and I are pausing and modeling more. When there’s conflict between them I’m asking more questions and making them think instead of trying to find fault and taking sides.
It’s been eye opening to see how far connecting with each of them regularly really goes. I’m thankful for the things I’ve learned from Wendy and the community members. This has had such a huge impact on our parenting journey!
When I first joined the Bonfire 2.5 years ago, I had very little confidence in my parenting tools and was at a loss on understanding my power surge toddlers. I have learned SO much from my time in the Bonfire.
Having a positive mindset, pressing the pause button and remaining calm and neutral are developed skills I use every day of my life. I now have deep empathy for all my kids and have love practicing seeing them in the light in the midst of misbehavior.
Thank you Wendy & Bonfire team for transforming our family.
I am definitely in for another year! I have learned so much, grown do much and become a better mom for sure AND I still have plenty more learning to do and not there YET!! I need ye all so much!
The tools I have learned over the last 6 months at the Bonfire impact so much more than my parenting. It has improved the way I communicate with my kids, husband, family/friends and mostly MYSELF! I feel happy because I am calmer inside my own head and body.
After listening to a lesson, podcast or live session, I always feel energized and excited about a new strategy or something I have learned about myself in the process.
You all challenge me to be better each day. You all hold me accountable and provide amazing support. I appreciate you all at FSF! Thank you!
Being a part of the Bonfire has helped me completely shift my mindset as a parent. Once I shifted my mind, I was able to get on my child’s level to be creative & problem solve (redirect) misbehavior effectively!
I have been trying out lots of strategies & seeing great results. In the past few days alone our family has had an encouragement feast, done several make-ups in different forms, have been using the firm and kind process regularly & been trying out the power struggle dissolving strategies. Thanks for everything!!!
As I’m beginning to realize what an incredible resource this Bonfire community & and coaching is, wow! I just finished up the foundations course too!I have had some really REALLY empowering moments since I first started implementing this work earlier this year. The moment I took MY first calming break was SO empowering!
My 3 kids have such a strong, incredible relationship with one another and SO much better interpersonal skills because of this work & the skills I’ve learned on how to work with them from The Bonfire! 💜
The tools you’ve given GREATLY helped me with my 3 year old! I was just telling my husband tonight that I feel like I’ve just had a different perspective with her lately and just have more options to use with her now. Finding your work & the Bonfire community has been HUGE!
We’ve had our first huge breakthrough and I know for certain one year ago my day would not have ended like that. I would have gone to bed feeling guilty, knowing I had lost it once again. Thank you Wendy Snyder for being faithful to God and this work and bringing change to our family!
What my
families
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A year ago I would have said being home 24/7 with the kids and wife during a world pandemic would have been a death sentence (or divorce material). It has actually been really pleasant, and it’s because my son has improved so much from the Fresh Start approach my wife took the lead on to implement in our home. The fun moments are more often and the blowouts are fewer and shorter lived. Thanks Wendy!
I’m so grateful for having found this Bonfire community. I can’t imagine how strained my relationship would be with my son by now had we not learned about positive parenting. Instead of shaming him for his poor behavior all the time, we are speaking life into him. We are telling him who he is in Christ and affirming the things he does well. We are looking for the good instead of only correcting the bad. And we are showing him a better way as we learn a better way.
Thank you Fresh Start Family for this past 6 months! I know I am doing something right when Aubrie my 2 year old can tell I get frustrated or start raising my voice with my husband. She immediately tells me to take a deep breath! I have still so much to learn but so thankful for this group!
I just finished up the Foundations course and WOW where to begin! Without a doubt our biggest struggle has been bedtime with our 3.5 year old. I am so thankful for the approach Wendy laid out. I was amazed that in a few short days of using some of Wendy’s suggestions bedtime was so much easier! It is refreshing to feel like you’re giving your kids the tools they need to think for themselves and make good decisions. I see myself coming back to the lessons over and over again and I whole hardheartedly recommend the Foundations Course to every family!
We absolutely loved the Fresh Start Parenting class with Wendy! It has helped us to parent our two boys the way we want to – with grace, understanding, communication and love. And rather than simply looking at how to make them do what we want right now (behavior modification), we now view our role as parents with more of an eternal perspective. It is more about building a relationship. We NEED courses like this to help us along in this crazy parenting journey! I would HIGHLY recommend this class!
My biggest takeaway from Fresh Start Family classes was the notion of being equipped with a tool belt. If one tool doesn’t work, you can try another and see what works best for your family. I have recommended Fresh Start Family to a number of friends. This is time well spent. It will only benefit your family.
I spent this last weekend finishing up the foundations course with my husband! I feel so empowered!!! I have made a diligent effort the past few days to be conscious in my actions and words with my 3.5 year old son and have seen a SIGNIFICANT difference overall in our interactions, his behavior, my mood and how we have handled not so great moments. I am thankful to have found Fresh Start Family and to be learning and growing each day alongside my kids!