Raising children can be a singularly enjoyable experience if we only had the proper training in how to do it
Therapy sounds very time-consuming, expensive, and extracts an enormous emotional toll when it’s not effective, or the therapist is not a match, or for whatever reason it doesn’t improve the situation — which, according to what I’ve read in this magazine, is often the case. And let’s say, best case scenario, he learns skills in therapy, I feel very doubtful that he’d really transfer them to the real world.
Instead of sending a child to therapy, maybe we, as the parents, should be in therapy? The therapist can teach us how to help our kid?
I like this idea because we already understand him well and have a strong relationship with him, two things that the therapist is going to have to spend a lot of time working on.
But are parents always the best choice? Will we be able to learn enough, quickly enough, to be effective? At what point do we say he needs an expert working with him directly? After all, a therapist is not a quick solution and may not be effective either.
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