Parenting

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Regardless of the age of your child, they are on your mind all the time. The infant and toddlers, you just want them to sleep through the night. As kids you are worried about their nutrition, their growth and development and making sure they are staying on an average course. Preteen years in this technology-driven age, is more and more difficult to manage and friendships and inappropriate websites are now the topic for the source of your worry. Their new friends groups and the sports teams they are wanting to join are a constant battle of family time and a challenge to what is important to you and to them. 

Andrew is in the thick of it all! His 5 boys are all in the preteen and teenage driving years of their development. Knowing what to say yes to and when to put a hard boundary into place, are weekly conversations at the Woody household. Understanding the each child is different, while having household standards can be discouraging and difficult to uphold when it comes to privileges and responsibilities.  A parent who is in the middle of parenting, is a great place to start when you are looking for someone to talk to about the worries, struggles and the unknowns of parenting. In these sessions, boundaries for yourself and your emotions are just as important as the training your child. Remembering you are only part of the equation and that your child does have a free will and thier own choices in life to live is the hardest part. Keeping in check what you are and are not responsible for, brings c