EL ABC DE LAS EMOCIONES DE LOS PADRES
The education of children causes a lot of insecurities, anguish, guilt, shame, depression or anger. Good education is transmitted from the family nucleus, the child's closest environment, which is why it is very important to know how we can do it.
Being a parent is not easy, it is an all-consuming job, it involves many sacrifices and sometimes our emotions sabotage us and interfere with our ability to deal with the situation in a calm and/or functional way.
There are no magic solutions or recipes, but we must be aware that we adults are responsible for educating and accompanying our children in the management of their emotions, and for this it is important that we learn to manage our own emotions.
So, to solve any "problem situation" we must focus on ourselves and not on our children, the change must be focused on us.
It is important to learn to change the way we look at things, parents need to work hard on patience and irrational ideas.
Our therapy model, Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT) applied to parents aims to provide tools that allow us to better manage the dysfunctional behaviour of our children, learning to manage our emotions. The aim is not only to teach skills to manage our children's behaviour, but also to learn to change our own attitudes in relation to parenting. It is important that as parents we develop a new point of view that allows us to be more decisive.
The patient is the child, but shifting the spotlight means looking at our own emotions, it is important to learn to manage our own emotions in order to better deal with our children's behaviours.