WHEN TO USE PARENTAL GUIDANCE?
Parental guidance (or work on co-parenting) is indicated when parents, whether in a couple, separated or raising their children alone, encounter difficulties in the educational supervision of their children. It offers parents the necessary support to fully access their parenting skills and improve their parenting .
These difficulties can occur at important stage in children’s development
- birth and the first months of life
- the passage through the oppositional phase
- starting kindergarten or school
- puberty and adolescence; educational decisions and guidance difficulties
- leaving the family home or having difficulty leaving the family home
- the return of an adult child to the parental home
The use of parental guidance (co-parenting) is indicated when
- parents find it difficult to exercise their legitimate authority
- they disagree about their parental roles
- their educational values are different, even irreconcilable
- cultural differences are a problem for them
- the parents are experiencing marital difficulties (conflicts, separation, violence)
- the parents or children are experiencing psychological difficulties which have repercussions on the relationship between them
Parental guidance (work on co-parenting) enables parents to
- better adapt to the needs of their children according to their age, find or rediscover a better collaboration in their educational roles
- define common educational values
- regain a position of authority
- redefine the respective roles of each parent after separation
- take a step back from parenting overwhelmed
- share their educational concerns when only one parent is responsible for raising the children