S2 E16 - Stop Trying to Be Your Child's Bestie: Start Being the Best Parent for them

The Happiness Minute

This episode discusses the often blurred lines between being a parent and trying to be your child's best friend. While being close to your child is appealing, there's a fine line between building a healthy, trusting relationship and losing sight of your role as a parent.
We'll explore why striving to be your child's "bestie" can sometimes undermine your authority and why children thrive when parents provide structure, boundaries, and guidance.
About Inger Madsen
Inger Madsen is a certified and accredited advanced EFT practitioner, a matrix re-imprinting practitioner and mum of three. With surgeon-level laser focus, she has the ability to discern the root cause of unhappiness in the family so that change can happen, fast, saving you and your children years in therapy. Inger is on a mission to help families be happy again.

In her private practice she has worked on the coalface of teenage rebellion for nearly 20 years supporting families.

Inger creates emotional well-being courses for secondary students and has delivered her ‘Parenting an Anxious Teen’ workshop for parents for over 10 years.
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Parent Like a Leader: Raise the Future

A 12 week online course

The relationship between parent and child is a dynamic, reciprocal two way flowing current.

We help them navigate the world and they teach us how to be the best parents we can be.

Sometimes we teach, sometimes we learn.

And we also have to lead.

And then adolescence comes along.

You feel the gut-wrenching pain of watching your teenager struggle with their emotions and their place in the world, and you are not alone.

Your attempts to help end in screaming matches, meltdowns and slammed doors and your strategy of being their best friend isn’t working anymore. And I have been there too.

You realise that your reactions escalate things but, still and again, you lose your temper. It’s hard.

Your find yourself mired in guilt one minute and shaming and blaming the next if you are not running the never-ending nag loop.

What if your leadership skills need an upgrade?

I have designed this course to take you from helpless, overwhelmed and stressed to calm, empowered leader of your family.

Stop treading on eggshells and instead learn how to avoid escalating situation and get that dishwasher emptied.

Understand the life changing impact of you being able to remain calm – and learn how to achieve that Zen calm.

Become the guide your teenager needs to navigate all the difficult feelings that come with adolescence and have the tools to always create calm connections in your family.

Learn the surprising truth about trauma and emotions that will serve you and your children forever.

Once and for all ditch your unnecessary guilt which is only ever getting in the way of your parenting so that you can be fully present to your child.

Untangle the unhelpful patterns that were passed down to you so we can break the cycle of generational trauma and create a better world.

Beta Launch this autumn (2024) with a beta launch price. Be first to get the offer by emailing Inger.

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