Parent Coaching? As a parent you are uniquely qualified to guide your teenager’s education and journey through life. Today, more than ever, parents must assume the role of mentor and coach to guide their teens through the complexities of life. Parents always tell me that they want to raise respectful, resourceful, and responsible people.

Yet, the advice they get from the media and from psychologists is often piecemeal and confusing. Often parents attempt to apply ideas that have not been personalized for their unique circumstances with less than satisfying results. In addition, the more toxic elements of society often offer a more compelling vision than the values and goals their parents try to instill.

How can parents reclaim their courage and resourcefulness given the complexities of modern life?

This is where parent coaching can be useful. Parent coaching gives parents the tools they need to tap into their adolescent’s natural strivings for personal excellence and social contribution. Parent Coaching personalizes these tools to fit the family and adolescent.

Parents can benefit by:

• Win cooperation without coercion.
• Learn to manage your own expectations and disappointments.
• Resolve your own left over conflicts form your own teenage years.
• Learn to negotiate for specific improvements.
• Improve your communication, problem solving, and conflict resolution skills.
• Learn to see the world through the eyes of your adolescent.
• Use family meetings and celebrations to deepen family bonds.
• Instill values that promote commitment, purpose, and fulfillment.
• Increase your parental courage and optimism.
• View mistakes as opportunities for learning.
• Learn to express your affection and love to your teen.

Adolescents benefit by:

• Discovering their own unique strengths and desire to use them.
• Communicate better with family and friends.
• Increase their self acceptance and self-encouragement.
• Choose relationships consistent with their goals and values.
• Become more goal directed.
• Overcome self-limiting attitudes and behaviors.
• Learn to creatively cope with mistakes, setbacks, and failure.

Parent Coaching is for you if you find yourself saying…

• How do I help my teen make choices that will help him succeed in life?
• I want to prevent problems before they happen.
• I sometimes don’t say what I really mean.
• Things are OK, but couldn’t they be better?
• We always seem to be struggling with something.
• I often feel stressed and discouraged.
• I wonder if she will ever be responsible/
• Everything I try doesn’t work.
• I feel a gap growing between us.
• Therapy was helpful, but now what?

For more information or to make an appointment please use our contact form or call 516.256.1740.