Parenting Counseling

Parenting Counseling Parenting counseling, what does that mean? I am a parent, a late life parent, which has its own built in wisdom and deficiencies when the kids are almost 11 and just turned 5. I find myself routinely looking back to my own childhood... More

Parenting Counseling Parenting counseling, what does that mean? I am a parent, a late life parent, which has its own built in wisdom and deficiencies when the kids are almost 11 and just turned 5. I find myself routinely looking back to my own childhood and remembering behaviors that I demonstrated, and my parents response to those behaviors, to evaluate how strong my response should be to the behaviors of my kids, when I am alarmed about something they say or do, and that, according to Marcy Axness, Ph. D. , is what parenting counseling is about, us making sense of our childhood experience so that we can guide our children. However we know today that attachment plays a huge part in the brain development of our children, and a secure attachment can be attended to, guided, enhanced so that our children enjoy secure relationships as adults. So I want to study up on what makes attachment happen in relationship with children. My reading of Allen Schore s work says that attachment is vi Less