The Weight of Parent Guilt: Letting Go of “What If?”
Have you ever looked at your struggling teen and wondered, “Did I miss something? Should I have seen this sooner? What if I had done things differently?”
I hear questions like these from parents all the time. Sometimes they say them out loud, and sometimes I can simply hear the guilt in their voices. When our children struggle emotionally, behaviorally, or mentally, it’s incredibly easy to start replaying the past and searching for the moment when we think we should have done something differently.
In this episode of Empower My Teen, I want to talk about that guilt.
As parents, we spend years…
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