Use these tips to predict and prepare, and have a more peaceful and fulfilling holiday season.
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The SPS Blog — Just for You — contains practical coaching tips and advise for parents of teens and young adults. (PS: There's tons of good info for any parent who wants to learn, grow and hone their parenting skills.)
Rest assured, we have some tips that can help you to more gracefully manage the reality that the “just a sec” isn’t going anywhere. With the goal of maintaining relationships through the passing tough moments, the underlying goal is to stay calm so as to not allow this common situation to turn into a battle.
It is difficult to know what to say and do when a child refuses to go to school. Use these 5 tips as a launching point.
We are clear that it is not just the child that needs to be ready, but also the parents. Rather than having an answer that is the universal “this is what you should do”, understanding that each family is unique in their focus and values, we encourage you to find the right questions to ask yourselves to help determine your readiness.
We need to practice self-care or we will become depleted. When we don’t tend to our own healing, we’ll find the behaviors in our children reflected in ourselves—if we are willing to look.
Heading into the holiday season means preparing for more time together at home, which also means more moments of "being seen" in our day-to-day lives.
Heading into the holiday season means preparing for more time together at home, which also means more moments of "being seen" in our day-to-day lives.
Asking our kids to practice critical thinking, even our resistant or oppositional kids, is key for supporting them in the long run. Critical thinking encourages them to tap into the brain processes that they try to get around, or that are generally more challenging for them to access.
If your teen is like 95% of the families we help, they are adamant about asserting their “independence”, usually defined by slammed doors and proclamations that they need to be free to do what they want, but for all practical purposes, they are still pretty dependent on parents in most areas of day-to-day living. Therefore, you still have some influence.
As demand for parent coaching has increased significantly over the past year, Solutions Parenting Support is excited to announce that Hanna Young, LCSW and Andrea Sussel, LCSW have joined the Solutions Parenting Support parent coaching team.
