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Parenting Skills- Giving Choices

Giving choices empowers our kids to learn decision-making skills, problem solving, and to become responsible for the outcomes of their choices.

Next Step…

Take a look at your own emotional vocabulary. Deepen your understanding with the help of these resources:

Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions: Feelings Wheel

https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Practices-FeelingsSensations.pdf

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Give it a try! We will add to this skill in the videos to come…

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Mother of 10 year old girl

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Mother of 9 year old girl

Karen has been an integral part of our daughter’s life over the past year. She has helped our family learn to truly listen to each other and hear deep-rooted needs over surface assumptions. We have been able to apply the strategies she has taught us as parents in tandem with the skill building she has done with our child to improve our overall relational health as a family unit. We are so grateful for her expertise and for the peace she has helped bring to our home!

Mother of 14 year old girl

Glad we took this approach. Karen was great. We are extremely grateful.

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Anonymous Parent

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Parents of 6 year old girl

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Father of a 9 year girl

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