31 min
Counseling 101: a Homeschool Parent’s Most Important Skill Homeschool Mama Self-Care: Nurturing the Nurturer
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- Health & Fitness
If there were any skill I would recommend for the pre-parent, it would be the one I discuss today: counseling 101, a homeschool parent’s most important skill (how to kindly, authentically, and diplomatically deal with people).
Really. Tough. Work. Trying to figure out how to co-exist in the world with other people (especially our little people, and our little people trying to coexist with their siblings: one of the hardest aspects of homeschooling).
However, because we weren’t put in this world alone, we need to learn to empathetically engage in our social sphere. Hence, I offer you: Counseling 101: a homeschool parent’s most important skill.
Get your Thought Care Tips so You Don’t Lost your Mind Managing Kid Conflict
This is a homeschool parent’s most important skill if she doesn’t want to lose her mind.
Counseling, conflict management, and communication will likely be a lifelong lesson for all of us as we continue to discover why we (& others) do what we do.
Our children have differing natural-born penchants for navigating these things, but we know intuitively that our kids learn to navigate relationships by watching us navigate our relationships.
First, let me establish a few of my beliefs about relationships:
* We are happier when we live in authentic harmony (with others and ourselves).
* Also, we feel more connected and are more creative when we do.
* We like our lives more when we’re living in harmony.
* Therefore, we must have a plan to address conflict when it arises. Because on this topic, I don’t agree with Forest Gump’s mama: you know that quote: “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.'” In a relationship, you definitely do: if you’re living alongside humans, including yourself, you’ll get into conflict).
ps I did a little research on chocolates at this point, and I discovered that I could probably eat every single Purdy’s chocolate available to Canadians? Do y’all have Purdy’s, when I did a rabbit trail of unsavoury international chocolate offerings, I discovered Heinz ketchup, vegemite, and insect flavoured? What even? Just no.
I’d love to hear about your least favourite chocolatier and oh also, send me a sample of your most favourite, haha.
The sibling relationship, especially in a homeschooled home, where continuous contact is present, requires an energetic, proactive parental approach.
Teaching kids that they have relational power to influence and affect others is important. They have the relational power to build up or tear down others.
Teaching our kids empathy, learning to actively listen, expressing their feelings and needs, empowering (theirs and others) choices, learning collaborative problem solving, setting clear boundaries, and practicing patience…all of this doesn’t happen overnight.
If there were any skill I would recommend for the pre-parent, it would be the one I discuss today: counseling 101, a homeschool parent’s most important skill (how to kindly, authentically, and diplomatically deal with people).
Really. Tough. Work. Trying to figure out how to co-exist in the world with other people (especially our little people, and our little people trying to coexist with their siblings: one of the hardest aspects of homeschooling).
However, because we weren’t put in this world alone, we need to learn to empathetically engage in our social sphere. Hence, I offer you: Counseling 101: a homeschool parent’s most important skill.
Get your Thought Care Tips so You Don’t Lost your Mind Managing Kid Conflict
This is a homeschool parent’s most important skill if she doesn’t want to lose her mind.
Counseling, conflict management, and communication will likely be a lifelong lesson for all of us as we continue to discover why we (& others) do what we do.
Our children have differing natural-born penchants for navigating these things, but we know intuitively that our kids learn to navigate relationships by watching us navigate our relationships.
First, let me establish a few of my beliefs about relationships:
* We are happier when we live in authentic harmony (with others and ourselves).
* Also, we feel more connected and are more creative when we do.
* We like our lives more when we’re living in harmony.
* Therefore, we must have a plan to address conflict when it arises. Because on this topic, I don’t agree with Forest Gump’s mama: you know that quote: “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.'” In a relationship, you definitely do: if you’re living alongside humans, including yourself, you’ll get into conflict).
ps I did a little research on chocolates at this point, and I discovered that I could probably eat every single Purdy’s chocolate available to Canadians? Do y’all have Purdy’s, when I did a rabbit trail of unsavoury international chocolate offerings, I discovered Heinz ketchup, vegemite, and insect flavoured? What even? Just no.
I’d love to hear about your least favourite chocolatier and oh also, send me a sample of your most favourite, haha.
The sibling relationship, especially in a homeschooled home, where continuous contact is present, requires an energetic, proactive parental approach.
Teaching kids that they have relational power to influence and affect others is important. They have the relational power to build up or tear down others.
Teaching our kids empathy, learning to actively listen, expressing their feelings and needs, empowering (theirs and others) choices, learning collaborative problem solving, setting clear boundaries, and practicing patience…all of this doesn’t happen overnight.
31 min