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.
Parenting Support - Just for You
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.)
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.
This is one of our favorite ways to help families reconnect and foster an environment that’s conducive to a variety of sometimes conflicting needs.
From small anxieties like having the toilet paper run out to big anxieties about our health and the health of our loved ones, it’s a challenging time for all of us. Many of the teenagers and young adults that are in treatment, already have a heightened level of anxiety and hypervigilant reactions to that anxiety. So learning how to manage our own anxiety becomes even more important so we don’t intensify the worries of our loved ones.
