The Parent & Teen Toolbox on Clubhouse

Description

Equipping Parents and Teenagers with the Tools for Navigating Adolescence.

🤩 Welcome Aboard! 🤩

This is a space for you if you are interested in supporting the young people in your lives.

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It is my Mission :

To Help Parents Support their Children through Adolescence; 
so that Together we can Build a Mentally Healthier and Happier Generation of Young People. 

50% of mental health issues start before the age of 14, so how much of this can be remedied by the right support to create the Happy Parent = Happy Child dynamic?
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The shame and guilt around parenting can be catastrophic and extends throughout our journey as parents. We are starting to overcome this and be open about the truths of maternity and early stage parenting but we have a long way to go when it comes to parenting through adolescence.
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Why is it so difficult for us to talk about?
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I believe that much of it comes from the perceived notion that to admit the struggle is to admit to failure as a parent.
Let’s start with being kinder to ourselves as parents.
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“The adolescent years are when, in many ways, a child becomes a ‘real person’. They become their own person. Emotions, trauma and confusions are amplified and the parenting game suddenly escalates into a new phase. The goal posts change, the teams switch ends at half time, but we don’t give ourselves the flexibility to change with them. This is when cracks can appear.

I believe that this is when the parenting role evolves
from MANAGER to MENTOR
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We come at parenting with the best intentions but we have no manual for what the job of a lifetime throws at us. At school we are taught algebra, but not how to communicate effectively, not self value and self worth and not how to parent and run a family.

So, why are we so hard on ourselves when
we feel that we aren’t doing well enough?”
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This comes, as always with Much Love 💕
Bringing Families Together - By Parenting Less 💞


‼️ I am not a medical practitioner - any advice that I am offering is based on my work that I have gained throughout my career whilst working with young people : Volunteering at Childline (UK’s Leading Child Counselling Charity), working in Prisons & Schools and throughout my 1-2-1 Client Work and Group Coaching Programmes. ‼️

For further information, images or quotes:
[email protected]
https://www.caigraham.com