| Parenting can be joyful,
rewarding, lonely & unpredictable.
As a parent you love your children. You want to teach them and guide them. And, you want to protect them. Most of us
never expected it would be the complex experience it is.
While it is often fun and rewarding, it can also be frustrating
and challenging.
Perhaps you are career parents
• Juggling the demands of your work schedules, your children’s
school issues and special activities...
• Manipulating schedules for their early release days, snow days,
and teacher conferences…
• Deciding which parent stays home when one child is sick…
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Stressed over issues of sibling rivalry, your children’s uncooperative
behavior, and lengthy school assignments…
Perhaps you are a single parent
In addition to the above, you have a variety of other concerns:
• Challenge of the complexities of visitations with the other parent…
• Negotiating rules and expectations for your children who live in
two homes…
• Struggling with the need to be firm while feeling guilty because
the time with your child is limited…
Perhaps you struggle with these questions
• How do you set limits and enforce family rules?
• How can you be direct with grandparents and friends who are constantly
indulging your children?
• How do you deal with your acting-out children while you are driving
your car or while shopping for groceries?
• And, how do you take care of yourself when the demands of your family
are constant and often urgent?
Let me help!
Raising my children is the hardest thing I have ever done! It seems that
we are surrounded by experts and other parents who seem to have it all
together. However, we are all struggling with many of the same issues.
We are all
struggling and juggling all the time.
Give yourself permission to seek out support and assistance. Often, just
learning more effective communication skills and having some support will
affirm that you are indeed excellent parents.
Call me for a confidential discussion of options available to you.
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