Parent’s Quarter

Family life has its own rhythms. The Founder of the Rewrite Method created this for you.

Your life is dictated by dates you can’t shift.

Many productivity systems assume your life fits neatly into four equal quarters. Parent's Quarter begins with a different understanding.

The Rewrite Method helps you identify where change belongs and build a sustainable pattern of growth that works with those rhythms rather than against them.

For many parents, that means a year of unequal quarters and a summer designed to test the limits of your patience. If this sounds like you, then the PQ offers you a special experience:

  • Start in September, break for half-term, finish well before Christmas

  • The Rewrite Method adapted for busy parents

  • Start from your family and working rhythms

Built by a parent, for parents.

What Happens in the Parent’s Quarter

PQ takes you through the same ten steps of the Reset email course, but across four months, not three.

If you feel like you want to learn the Rewrite Method but time is something that other people have, not you, then this was built for you.

  • Begin once the kids go back to school

  • Cover all the steps of the Rewrite Method across one special four-month quarter

  • Post half-term ‘Refocus’ Zoom session (with rewatch if you can’t attend)

  • Adapt the 13-week tracker to fit your year as a parent to begin the next year with confidence

  • Learn parent-focused journaling that understands your concerns about privacy

The Parent’s Quarter will give you more time than the Reset, and is written by someone who has lived the same life that you have.

It’s designed to give you the Rewrite Method in a way that you can adapt to your family life.

What Changes by the End

By the end of PQ participants notice three things:

  • They have proven they can find time for themselves

  • Action is deeply integrated to family needs

  • Journal practice feels tailored to a life less private

The Parent’s Quarter understands that time for yourself is the greatest challenge of parenting. It delivers the Rewrite Method so that you can begin to build change around not just your needs, but those of the people you love the most.

What You’ll Need to Do

You’ll need to:

  • Open and read the one weekly email

  • Complete the one weekly task

  • Answer the journal prompts

  • Show up for the post-half-term Refocus session (on Zoom or by rewatch)

  • Stay with the process for the four months between back-to-school and Christmas

Parent’s Quarter is the stripped back, bare-bones, knackered-parent version of the Rewrite Method. It’s the version that Marianne began with, and the version closest to her heart.

In this productivity system, you will find space has been made for you.

Change doesn’t happen all at once.

It happens when it fits your life.

The Rewrite Method, for parents.

If you can’t remember who you are, this is where you will.

Comments from previous Rewrite Members

“I thought I didn't have the time to look at the complete picture of my life. I didn't understand the one part of my life that was causing so much stress. I had so much less to fix than I expected.”

— Rewrite Member, AC

“I found myself looking forward to the emails, as I could read them over in my own time and benefit greatly from doing so.”

— Rewrite Member, EB

“It is hard to image a scenario in which you will not benefit.”

— Rewrite Member, DB

“I wasn’t sure I wanted to know the answers to my whole life health. It was so comforting to see how unique and complex my whole life was. I focus on my problems and forget my blessings.”

— Rewrite Member, DC

“I soon realised that the 13 weeks was too quick for me, but I emailed Marianne and she showed me that I can go at my own pace, revisit lessons, and keep learning when it works for me.”

— Rewrite Member, EA

“You have helped me to start re-finding my younger self. Excited to look ahead. Open, relaxed, and freer. Just more me.”

— Rewrite Member, SH

If Parent’s Quarter isn’t right for you now, explore your options.

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