5 Ways To Keep The Kids Occupied During Couples Therapy
Kids are a huge blessing! Love for our children is often what brings us to couples therapy. We want to be happy and we want our children to have a happy childhood, right?
It’s important for your kids to know you take care of yourself and your marriage. Putting your relationship first is helping the children and family.
Most find that having someone watch your kids while you take care of your relationship is the best choice you will make. It is much easier to concentrate with fewer distractions.
3 Strategies For Raising Your Kid To Be A Kind And Likable Person
How Your Parenting Today Impacts, Not Just Your Marriage, But Your Kid’s Future Marriage As Well
In a previous post called How To Raise Your Kid To Be A Great Spouse we shared several practical strategies for building a great relationship with your kid so they become a great spouse one day.
This post continues that conversation about how do we do what we can do to ensure we raise exceptional human beings….AND how this has a direct impact on marriage.
We write from our experiences as parents and as professional marriage therapists. We help couples every day who once were little kids seeking for attention and love. We never lose that need for connection and love….it simply transfers to our marriage partner.
If we can learn to meet these needs for our kids we are doing 3 things. 1. We are learning how to meet those needs for our partner, 2. We’re learning about our own needs, and 3. We’re transforming lives for generations upon generations into the future.
Humans have this incredible power to love and make a conscious effort to change. We can heal and we can make little shifts to heal the lives of others if we’re brave enough to try.
We’re in this together! One big human family. Your family and your marriage plays a key roll in how the world thrives or falls apart. If you don’t believe me…look at the education system for example…
When our public lacks an education there aren’t enough skilled workers to keep an economy alive. People go hungry and loose hope. The good news is you don’t have to rely on some government education system.
When you learn these skills you teach your children how seek their own education. You remove obstacles so they can fully thrive and live up to their potential. You’re giving them emotional intelligence. This gift will allow them to never starve for love or intimacy.
How To Raise Your Kid To Be A Great Spouse
3 Strategies For Building A Real Connection With Your Kids That Will Actually Change YOUR Life And Marriage
There are a few things we’ve discovered in our marriage counseling practice that people wish they had growing up. If you are mindful of these six things we cover here, as you raise your kids to be future husbands and wives, you will discover your relationships will transform.
Some things you’ll want to avoid and some you’ll want to start doing so you can achieve your ultimate parenting goals…to raise happy, healthy, successful children, who make good choices, lives up to their full potential, and who are equipped to be a great spouse one day.
Some of these things you’ll know. Some you already do automatically…and some will take a extra effort on your part. After helping thousands of couples in our marriage counseling private practices this is what we’ve discovered makes couples the most successful.
It goes far beyond communication techniques and temporary strategies for healing broken trust. What we share here gets to the root of real intimacy.
DISCLAIMER: There is so much parent shaming out there these days….we are parents ourselves and frankly we’re sick of it all. This is NOT that.
This article is all about encouraging you and building you up so you can feel great about your skills and what you’ve already accomplished!
So let’s explore how you can make sure your kids grow into great spouses one day….if they so choose.
New Parent Difficulties: A Case Study
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Building Resilience Through Life Transitions
Transitions in life can be so hard. Brad and I are already talking about when we will have a second child. I am already thinking about how my little Luke will feel about no longer being the baby.
Of course he will always be my baby…but the thought of him growing older and not being my little guy is a bit sad. We also think about his emotional health a lot.
We know how important it is for little guys and girls to be emotionally healthy because they take their emotional health or disfunction with them into their adult years. Whether they are emotionally healthy or not it impacts every aspect of their lives....