Communication between parents and children

Modern parents face unprecedented challenges: intense working rhythms, screens invading the home, the idealisation of the perfect child and contradictory messages about upbringing. Many oscillate between exhausting permissiveness and guilt-inducing authoritarianism. Parental guidance offers clear reference points for combining educational firmness with deep emotional kindness.

Support draws inspiration from established communication programmes such as the Faber and Mazlish approach. Parents learn to acknowledge children’s feelings through active listening rather than denial, for example, “you have the right to be angry, but not to hit”; to express their own limits clearly without causing hurt; and to invite cooperation by offering structured choices.

The practitioner helps the family establish predictable rituals around sleep, homework and morning departures that reassure children and prevent daily power struggles. Parents learn systematically to recognise effort and appropriate behaviour through descriptive praise, strengthening children’s self-esteem far more than repeated punishment.

Guidance relieves parents of guilt by recalling that parenting is a continuous learning process. It harmonises the stance of both partners to provide a coherent, secure framework, restoring the family home’s role as a haven of peace and shared joy.

Adjusting parenting behaviour takes time and self-compassion. The practitioner encourages parents to celebrate every small improvement in family atmosphere, reminding them that a lovingly consistent framework is the most precious gift to a child’s development.