A Note From The Santa Monica Teen & Family Therapist
Conscious parenting involves pausing to evaluate whether your words or actions are necessary. – Sandra
Encouraging your child should never include a demeaning or threatening word, nor should it cause them to lose their dignity or self-respect. Instead, encouragement should inspire and uplift them, guiding them toward a path of hope and possibility.
When children act out, disobey, behave rudely or display disturbing emotions, it’s easy to dismiss them or their behavior as “bad” or “wrong”; however, as we go about redirecting and disciplining our children, it’s helpful to see these behaviors as a child’s best attempt to meet a need. It calls upon us to look at our relationship with our child, and find the source of their unmet need.
Although it can at times be exhausting to cope with the challenges and demands typical of this period, parents need to deal with mis-behavior in a straightforward, honest way that affirms the dignity and power of both parent and child. The parent who cannot tolerate their teen expressing their autonomy and wanting to do things independently will make that child feel as though the price of their own freedom is abandonment and loss of love.
Respectful parenting means being able to see the frustrations teens encounter when pushing against imposed boundaries as opportunities for them to exercise self-control, self-respect and respect for others.
If your teen is struggling socially or emotionally, I can help you to discover the cause and remedy it.
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