Parenting
All children, including my own, present challenges to their parents and yet we think we should just know how to calmly cope. I have 2 very different children, one being more introverted and anxious and the other more strong headed and independent. With my eldest I often found myself lost and unsure about how to react to him and to support him in the best way. Now, I find I use all the skills learnt on my positive parenting training course all the time with both my children. That doesn’t mean they don’t drive me crazy sometimes, or that life doesn’t overwhelm me with all the madness that goes along with being a family. It does! I just also know that when I get it wrong, I have the tools in the bag to fix it, and that these days, most of the time, I get it more right. I love knowing that I am building really strong connections with my kids that will help us when things get tough as they got older and face harder challenges.
We all face our own unique challenges with our children, no matter how old they are. And we all have stress points in our day when things get bad. Yours may be
- Getting out of the house in the morning
- Bedtime (my personal stress point!)
- Bath times
- Meal times
- Homework
- Shopping trips
- Car journeys
- Transitions between home, school, nursery, day care, playdates etc
- Social situations
- Use of technology
- And there are many many more
