Alex felt lost and stressed raising her boys despite reading parenting books. She invested in a parenting course like she would a career degree, and saw her son's behavior improve and her home become more pleasant.
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I had been finding I just wasn't enjoying parenting. I would keep messaging him going, I'm not enjoying this, I'm hating this, and that made me sad that I was not enjoying something that I really felt I should be enjoying. I needed external support.
We'd read the books and we'd listened to the podcasts, but we needed an interactive conversation and a toolkit.
You spend years investing in your career by doing a degree. I'm a teacher, I've trained for years, and that's a financial commitment. But actually, the most important thing we do is parent our and I felt that if I couldn't invest in him, then, then something was wrong. So that's how I saw it. This is a really important thing we're doing for him.
Money well spent, and you're investing in yourself as a parent, and really worth it.
You know, you spend £1,000 on an iPhone. Actually, the course is so much more than an iPhone. It's your child, and we've seen the benefits in our son, and home is a lovely place to be now.