Does This Feel Like Your Home Right Now?
This Is For Parents Who...
✓ Feel like they're constantly repeating themselves.
✓ Are exhausted by yelling and then feeling guilty afterward.
✓ Feel embarrassed by their child's behaviour in public.
✓ Wonder why nothing seems to create lasting change.
✓ Want to stop surviving parenthood and actually enjoy it.
✓ Long to become the calm, patient parent God is calling them to be.
Whether you're struggling with...
Constant whining
• Defiance
• Disrespect
• Tantrums
• Sibling fighting
• Emotional outbursts
• Poor table manners
• Resistance to correction
• Church behaviour
• Public meltdowns
• Screen-related conflict
• Bedtime battles
• Lack of responsibility
• Poor listening
Strong-willed personalities
...or simply feel like you've tried everything...
We'll identify the root cause and create a plan that actually works.
You hate how often you’re snapping at your children.
Not because you don’t love them…but because you feel emotionally worn down and completely drained.
- You promised yourself you’d stay calm this time.
- Patient this time.
- Gentle this time.
But after correcting the same thing for the 100th time, you feel yourself losing it again.
And afterward? You feel guilty, discouraged, and defeated.
Deep down, you’re terrified you’re failing your child. I've been there, too.
You care deeply about raising respectful, virtuous, good-hearted children.
You want them to grow into adults who are:
- grateful,
- emotionally healthy,
- respectful,
- self-controlled,
- considerate of others,
- and rooted in strong moral character.
But right now, it feels like nothing you’re doing is actually forming those habits in them.
And that fear weighs heavily on your heart.
You’ve tried consequences, reminders, charts, lectures, and repeating yourself endlessly…
…but the lesson still isn’t resonating.
Not because you’re a bad parent.
But because most parenting advice focuses only on controlling behaviour, not forming the heart, habits, and character behind it.
Children don’t truly change through endless correction alone.
They need formation.
And maybe the hardest part of all…is how much this is affecting YOU.
- The emotional burnout.
- The discouragement.
- The tension in your marriage.
- The heaviness in your home.
- Even your spiritual life feels drained because you’re constantly surviving instead of living in peace.
You don’t want a home filled with constant frustration and conflict.
You want a home marked by:
- peace,
- virtue,
- joy,
- respect,
- order,
- and genuine love.
And that’s exactly what this program was designed to help you build.
The Virtue Roots Method
Unlike traditional behaviour strategies that only address the symptoms...
The Virtue Roots™ Method uncovers the root causes of difficult behaviour while helping parents cultivate the virtues, habits, and leadership that create lasting transformation.
Together we will:
🌱 Identify what's driving the behaviour.
🌱 Discover the virtues your child needs to develop.
🌱 Create practical, age-appropriate strategies rooted in Catholic teaching.
🌱 Equip you to respond with confidence instead of frustration.
🌱 Build a peaceful family culture where respect naturally grows.
Parenting Shouldn't Leave You Feeling Like a Stranger to Yourself.
- If you find yourself yelling...
- Losing your patience...
- Reacting in ways you regret...
- or wondering why parenting feels so much harder than you imagined...
- We'll work together to break those patterns.
- You'll leave with practical tools, renewed confidence, and a personalized plan to help you become the parent you've been praying to become.
Imagine If...
- Instead of dreading another power struggle...You knew exactly how to respond.
- Instead of feeling embarrassed in public...You felt confident leading your child.
- Instead of wondering if you're failing...You felt equipped.
- Instead of surviving parenthood...You enjoyed it.
That's the transformation The Virtue Roots™ Method is designed to help you create.
Design for the Sessions
What happens and who it is for...
- Move from frustration to flourishing by addressing the root of behaviour and building a home rooted in virtue.
- For families with children under 10 (teenage issues won't be turned down)
- Bring up behaviour issues you want manners to take root; these could be labelled as "just a phase."
- Help is provided to find the root cause of the issue and how to let virtue take root
- Milestone-based strategies will be provided to help you instill the virtue and manners necessary for the behavioural issue you are having
- Given a summary of notes for everything talked about, as well as a list of resources that will help with the issue
- A plan of action will be provided for you to use immediately
- It will take place over Google Meets. (Zoom by request)
Why is this beneficial?
- Saves you the time and energy of finding resources for troubleshooting a behaviour
- Given a Catholic-directed answer aligned with Church teaching, so you don't have to second-guess the material
- All milestone-based, which is realistic in order for you to get the answer that aligns with their development
- Gives you a fast answer to your problem you can apply right away, so you don't have to waste time searching for the right answer
- Comprehensive structure to apply immediately
- Practical advice from a married person in the trenches with you
- Every person that comes to manners coaching will be added to our prayer intention list to get the assistance of intercession graces
What "The Virtue Roots Method" isn't...
- It is not a replacement for psychological help or diagnosis
- It is not a place of judgement
- It is not a place where sin will be promoted or encouraged
- It is not a place to blame everything on the child, but a place of longing to help them grow
- It is not a hostile place of information
- It is not a place where confidentiality will be broken, unless harm is involved and authorities need to be contacted in severe cases
- It is not a place of comparison of where others are at to make you feel guilty about where you are struggling
Why trust Corina with Manners Coaching?
- Virtue ethics graduate: thesis- importance of teaching children virtue prior to the age of reason, as it is subconscious training for good and evil discernment
- Human Rights graduate: thesis- importance of human dignity for all persons and how to honour life in difficult moments
- Known strong gifts of the Holy Spirit: discernment of spirits, encouragement, teaching, intercession, writing, meekness, understanding, wisdom
- 2 decades of experience working with children (neurotypical & neurodivergent)
- 15+ years of Church ministry experience
- Love of moral theology, Church teaching, social teachings of the Church, and etiquette manuals
- Often sought after for advice in difficult situations
The Virtue Roots Method - Breakthrough Session
$77.00Excl. VAT
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FAQ Coaching Services
Answering questions you may have ahead of time
What is manners/etiquette coaching and who is it for?
Manners coaching involves listening to the troublesome behaviours in your home and finding solutions to help the parent and child so manners can take root. It is guiding the behvaiour to a more holy outcome in order for virtue to be achieved.
This program is for Catholic families who want manners to take root in order to raise Saints.
Do you work with children, adults, or both?
Corina works primarily with parents who have children aged 10 and under. However, if parents need help with their teenagers, Corina won't turn them away.
Corina assists in instilling manners in children and helps parents on their parenting journey to raise better-mannered children and serve them with dignity.
What does a typical session look like?
You will receive an appointment confirmation via email, as well as a 24-hour reminder. You must fill out the inquiry form prior to your appointment. This allows for a prepared and thorough answer.
During the sessions, things your family are struggling with will be addressed. In 30-minute sessions, it is typically about solving 3 issues; for 1 hour, it is about 7.
At the end of the session, you will get a copy of our meeting notes and an after-session summary with any suggestions needed for the family member to succeed.
Is all information kept confidential?
All information is kept confidential. All information will be kept in accordance with the Privacy Act. Confidentiality will only be breached if law enforcement needs to be involved or if your life is at risk in any way.
How do cancellations and rescheduling work?
You have 24 hours to cancel or reschedule. If it is less than 24 hours, it is non-refundable, as the prep work and schedule have already been arranged for you.
Raising Well-Mannered Children helps you transform your Catholic family
WHERE MANNERS FORM MORALS.
Because true manners aren't empty rules, they form humble, charitable hearts- not entitled attitudes.
What is our "Stewardship Pledge"?
At Raising Well-Mannered Children, we pledge to uphold traditional, biblically rooted manners as a moral safeguard, not simply for civility, but for protection. We believe manners is not performative, but formative: shaping virtue, guarding innocence, and fostering discernment. In a world that often blurs boundaries and celebrates vice, we commit to forming children who can recognize truth, resist manipulation, and walk in dignity, shielded from scandal, safeguarded from abuse, and fortified against exploitation. We exist to help parents raise children better than we were raised, to prevent them from falling into worldly ways, and to cultivate saints in the making. Our mission is to restore the wisdom and moral foundations of past generations and to model a life of faith, virtue, and integrity that inspires future generations.
We stand behind this mission with a 30-day money-back guarantee on any physical item that arrives damaged or broken and no-hassle returns, because our commitment to excellence extends from our values to every product we place in your hands.
What makes our store and products unique?
- We are the only manners school that relates manners to morality. We don't leave out the author of creation in the manner He teaches us in Scripture.
- Our material is rooted in traditional Catholic teaching, Biblical, and Catechetical. This leaves no room for heresy or confusion on what the Church teaches.
- Most etiquette & manners programs begin too late (around 5!), after habits have already formed. We start where virtue begins: in the earliest years. From as young as 6 months, we help parents lay the groundwork for reverence, gratitude, and gentleness. These lessons don’t just shape behaviour; they strengthen character, helping children stand firm in goodness and grace. It sharpens their discernment as they navigate life.
- Our materials are curated from 1800s etiquette manuals, including lost traditions from the century. They are Catholic-based manuals to ensure it is aligned with the faith.
- We use the teaching styles of the 4 Nobel Prize winners and their runner-ups in our manners academy to ensure every child is reached and that manners take root.
- Our manners academy moral compass is considered in everything we teach: N-nobility, W- wisdom, S-stewardship, E - excellence in virtue.