Parent Counseling
Kids will ask for help in unloving ways. As a parent, your own emotions can affect the dynamic and make the situation difficult to understand. Unfortunately, a book cannot walk you through a specific situation managing and regulating your own emotions, or how to separate your emotional responses from your child’s behavior during conflict.
This is why parental counseling is helpful. Parents learn to identify their own needs and become equipped to understand and take care of the needs of the family. It provides tools, guidance, and support to parents in an unbiased, healthy manner without judgement.
Benefits include:
Better understanding of your parenting style and knowledge on how various problems could cause that style to change.
Know the pros and cons of your inherent way of parenting.
Utilize your parenting strengths to overcome your weaknesses.
Techniques to assertively handle conflict, which also demsonstrates to your child that conflict can be healthy and can be worked through
Recognize when your expectations don’t match the child’s, or when the child can’t fullfill them, and reevaluate them and how to move forward with other options
Help your children recognize their own emotions
Know how to foster self-esteem and self-worth without inhibiting it
Resolve issues that interfere with the family dynamics
Discipline and set limits for your child by providing the key parenting components of structure, stability, and consistency
Relieve pressure by realizing that no one is a perfect parent