Counseling for New Fathers
It’s amazing how good people are at raising kids who are at a certain stage, but struggle once a new developmental transition is reached. One parent who is great with infant routines and toddler’s “No’s!” are totally lost at sea once door slamming 15-year-old...
Counseling for New Fathers
Many fathers feel they don’t get to play as strong a role as mothers do when it comes to parenting. In fact, they often feel pushed out of the room or shamed that they can’t do it as well as mom. Often mothers are the ones giving the message that when there’s a...
Counseling for New Fathers
The word ‘expectation’ isn’t used as much as it used to be. Now we hear about assessments and testing, rules and outcomes. But what all those things point to are what we expect our kids to know and then what to do with that knowledge. Kimanzi...
Counseling for New Fathers
As a parent you are constantly under scrutiny and when you’re dealing with temper tantrums in public the scrutiny becomes even stronger. A good part of that comes from yourself—whether you’re being the mom or dad that you want to be or whether...
Counseling for New Fathers
Raising a child alone is hard. Raising a child with someone else isn’t all that easy either. Raising a child when the two of you have different parenting styles? Well, you’re up for a challenge, right. Sure there are some shared tasks and a division of...