Parenting and Family Life
There is no greater life challenge than that of parenting children from birth to young adulthood while at the same time being involved in the rigors of meeting career or job requirements; needing to take effective care of relationships with a partner, with friends, and with members of extended families; and still finding enough time to nourish yourself. What makes the parenting challenge even greater is that the requirements of what constitutes reasonable parenting continue to shift and change throughout your child’s developmental phases. What infants need from us as parents is quite different from the parenting challenges posed by toddlers, and this, in turn, creates new demands through each subsequent period until we have to establish adult-to-adult relationships with our independent and grown children. The following brief descriptions of the journey and its demands might be informative:
Each of these shifting demands on parents can be filled with challenge and difficulty. Depending on your particular family, moving through developmental eras one or more of the following signs of family stress may appear if proper attunement is not occurring:
Parenting & Family Coaching at Sunstone Center can assist your family with any of these challenges. Felicia Snell believes in preserving the family by playing on their strengths and strengthening the weaker places. At Sunstone Center, your family will be treated as a unit with care, compassion and hope for the future.