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Unleash Your Parenting Potential as an Advisor

Learn what defines this parenting strength, what motivates your parenting, how to gain energy, areas to contribute your best, and what to avoid to reduce struggles in parenting.

Description

Take the wise and mature long view of life. Consider child’s well-being and guide with patience.

Motivators

Meaning & Mastery

Energizers

Competency, Mastery, Knowledge, Relationships, Purpose, Connection

Contributions

Patience, Maturity, Understanding, Sought for Counsel, Regarded as Wise

Struggles

Know It All, Know What’s Best, Talk Rather Than Listen

Use Your Advisor Strength to Meet Your Child's Basic Needs

Learn how to use this parenting strength to show love, build trust, give hope, establish structure, and bring correction for bringing out the best in your child.

Show Love

Be interested in the details
Actively listen
Be understanding in difficulties

Build Trust

Offer wise advice and counsel
Share experiences from past failures
Hold shortcomings in confidence

Give Hope

Present the path out of a problem
Seek answers to resolve a problem
Look ahead and share positive outcomes

Establish Structure

Ask quality questions
Establish clear expectations
Provide authoritative direction with control measures

Bring Correction

Respond with appropriate levels of severity
Explain the consequences for behavior and follow through
Provide instruction by lecture or discussion

Use These Strategies Today to Feel Confident and Truly Make a Difference in Your Family

Strategies

Teach what matters most in life, beyond this moment
Listen actively to their challenges and guide the discovery of answers
Slow things down; live in and enjoy the present time together as family
Share dinner together to informally teach and grow bonds; model living life now
Help kids find balance and teach them about perspective

Advisor

Listen as Madlin shares how she uses her Advisor strength to parent her son in this interview with Cynthia.

Find the Best of You

While there are common ways that parents may use their Advisor strength, how you use this strength to the full extent is unique to you when combined with your other parenting strengths.

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