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Flowerb said:
I wish more Ts would ask about their client's kids.

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You all are correct, the transition to the teen years is a tough experience for most parents.

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I agree, discussing our kids and teens is a great topic for therapy. It took me a while to realize what a great resource my T was for this. This is a topic he takes very seriously. He sometimes provides reassurance and has great ideas and insights into parenting issues and will suggest new approaches that I can try. (He is a family therapist.) He was the one who provided the referral for my youngest daughter's T and sometimes he and her T consult on our family issues (I've signed a release). The child specialist who is helping with our divorce has been super helpful too and is a wealth of parenting information. She has oodles of concrete suggestions and has made some really spot on interpretations about what is going on in our family. One thing she told me is that I give my youngest daughter "too much space" and that had never occurred to me before. It makes me see a lot of our interactions in a new light, taking my own personal foibles into account, and gives me encouragement to try to surmount them for the good of my kids.

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I just seem to be internally freaking out a bit more than others.

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">Try this on.... A few weeks ago my oldest daughter came to me and said she wants to go onto birth control pills.

Well, I wrote a lot about that. But can't agree enough--parents, use your therapists for help with kids and parenting issues!