Tips
Parenting Tips for Family Well-Being
- Every age is different—you need to know what to do at each stage of growth.
- Learning to recognize the weaknesses in your parenting style is key to building more parenting strengths.
- Knowing how to ask the right questions lets you in on your child’s “secret life”.
- The disciplines that work change dramatically as your child gets older.
- Freedom and responsibility go hand in hand.
Richard Silk Coaching Services offers a comprehensive model for youth and human development. You can learn how to relate to your child in age-appropriate ways, which makes them much more receptive to your guidance.
Parenting is the most important job you will ever have, but most of us have never received any training in parenting skills. Network programs can help you pinpoint parenting patterns that aren’t working, and learn invaluable new parenting skills.
Building trust and intimacy is the first step toward open communications-but you also have to know how to talk to your child in specific ways that change as she ages. Let our coaching services and classes help you learn the skills needed to be as close as you can to your child—and keep them talking to you openly.
Disciplining a teenager the way you discipline a 10 year old, or a 10 year old the way you would a 5 year old, is tantamount to disaster. Learn and apply these universally true dynamics in very practical, hands on terms—and see the difference they make for yourself.
Responsibility comes first, but greater freedom must follow. When your child responsibly does his homework on time, then he can have the freedom to choose to watch tv or have a friend over. Understand this dynamic, how and why it works, and apply it in all areas of life.
Tips for Growth
- Everyone deals with the same core issues of human interaction
- There are real benefits to knowing your own strengths and weaknesses
- Knowing the right questions—and how to ask them-is a crucial relational skill
- Self responsibility is the key to greater freedom and effectiveness
- It takes guts to feel unwanted without striking back
- Being right is not as important as having good, loving relationships
- There’s a balance between wanting to do things yourself and wanting help
- Recognizing your hidden agendas is a boon to effectiveness
- Everyone looks at life through their own colored glasses
Richard Silk Coaching Services offers a comprehensive model for human development. Understanding this process allows you to relate more effectively, under all circumstances. Bring feeling and informed insight to your relationships and practical life situations.
We are all a mix of emotional, physical and mental patterns. Know your dominant areas and those you need to develop further. This tool for understanding allows you to realize what to expect from yourself and others. Learn how to lead with strengths and build up areas of weakness.
Building trust and intimacy is the first step toward open communications. Learn to ask questions that reveal the real situation you have in front of you, without putting the other person on the defensive. The most basic tool to learn to use in any situation of stress or need, is to first – simply ask!
Struggle to undertake an exercise program? Trying gyms and giving up? Discover the keys to self-responsibility and self-discipline. Enjoy better health and success in life and work in the bargain. Self-managed health care requires a true inventory of where and why you are not making the grade. If you find yourself blaming others a lot, is that a warning bell?
We are always on the lookout for signs that we’re not appreciated, liked and loved. So much so, we misinterpret signals. Feeling unappreciated, we want to get even or strike back-and we usually do. First you need to see you are always “lying in wait” in all kinds of ways – little and not so little – to have your assumption be confirmed so you can be right. Getting past this self-defeating ritual is huge!
Relationship is not about being right, which really is about having things your way. Two “my ways” need to become one agreement. Listen and find creative alternatives.
Rooted in childhood and teenage years, all of us must learn to ask for and accept help when we really need it. Make your feelings and needs known and reach out in effective ways.
We all have just a few, readily identifiable core emotional patterns that drive us – all the time. What are they? Do you often find yourself regretting having done something or asking yourself, “Why did I do that?” See that we do things and make reasons up afterwards for why we did what we did.
Relating to and working with others successfully often requires the need to be aware that our perception of and feeling about things is different from everyone else’s. You can’t change things about other people – what they like, what they don’t like, how they respond emotionally to anything. You can’t turn a Ford into a Chevy as the saying used to go, so don’t even try. Learn how to work creatively with human factors you can’t change.
