Advisor
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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.Â
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.Â
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 outcomesÂ
Establish Structure
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Ask quality questions
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Establish clear expectations
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Provide authoritative direction with control measures
Bring Correction
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Respond with appropriate levels of severity
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Explain the consequences for behavior and follow through
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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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COMPETITOR
ENERGIZER
GO-GETTER
GUARDIAN
ORIGINATOR
OPTIMIST
PERFORMER
PERSUADER
RING LEADER
SEEKER
TEAM PLAYER
THINKER
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