Being a Parent versus Being a Friend
Estimated time to complete the course is 60 minutes.
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One of the challenges of being a parent is to engender warmth and closeness, while maintaining a healthy parent-child relationship. This course emphasizes the fact that children want a parent who is an authority figure, and yet is able to have a close relationship with them. Sometimes it’s confusing for parents to know how to combine closeness and authority. This course is designed to help parents increase their awareness of the importance of treating their teenagers as children who require clear age-appropriate boundaries with parents versus treating their children as surrogate friends, confidants or peers.
This course is geared toward the adolescent age group, however the methodologies can be applied to children of all ages.
Course Benefits
In this course you will learn the importance of consistently maintaining your role as a parent.
You will:
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Increase your awareness of what the difference is between being a parent versus being a friend.
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Identify and recognize the processes, intellectual and emotional, that you go through when making parenting decisions regarding your adolescent.
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Learn how your parenting is affected by your own upbringing, the state of your current life, and your relationship to yourself.
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Understand the parallel life stages that you and your teenage child are experiencing and how they may be contributing to your relationship with your child.
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Be proactive in your relationship with your child and choose the ways you will relate to your child.
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