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Joseph smiles warmly, “Let’s have your friend come over to our house very soon. It’s tough having to leave when you were having such a great time.”Ĭlaire nods, still pouting due to her loss of control in the situation. He offers acknowledgement of Claire’s feelings, saying, “I see that you’re upset we have to leave. He takes a deep breath to slow himself down to her pace.

He kneels to her level and touches her gently on the arm. She pouts and makes sure to move exceptionally slow while leaving.Ĭlaire slowing things down signals to Joseph that he was pushing Claire too quickly before. She feels upset and disrespected that she was not given the opportunity to find closure in her playtime with her friend. When he arrives to get Claire, he brusquely interrupts playtime, imploring that they must leave immediately to make the appointment.Ĭlaire picks up on his stress and begins to feel overwhelmed. He gets stuck in lunchtime rush hour and is running ten minutes late. Joseph has to pick up his seven year old daughter Claire from staying at her friend’s house early this afternoon. This is a pretty fail safe solution to those times when you can’t get out of the door fast enough, and your child is begrudgingly still getting dressed, or to the high octane emotional battles you encounter with your teenager regarding driving, privacy, or an obstinate attitude.

We have found one thing that works for most situations. This is a two-way street, where trust and respect must emanate from both parent and child. While we can’t suggest a quick fix to create a wonder child, our courses aim to create a meaningful relationship built on trust and respect. Therefore, while some of our suggestions will work quite well, others may be impossible to implement. Parenting is a unique experience to each person. Maybe you want to feel secure in your child’s choices, not needing to “hover” over playtime or when your child is visiting with friends.

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In a year, maybe you want to have full trust in your child, and you want to see that trust reciprocated. In five months, you may wish to be enjoying almost all of your time spent together, each party willing to compromise even when it comes to things like chores or where the family will be spending next Saturday. How do you want your relationship with your child to feel like in these time frames? Maybe in five weeks you want it to be easier to get along, less power struggles. Expand this to five-months, and then a year. Enrolling in these parenting courses fortifies that effort.īefore we begin, it is important to outline what you want from this course. Stepping up to this plate can be scary, difficult at times, and extremely rewarding when we have put forth our best effort. Children inherently look to parents as role models, of aspirations of their own future. This course provides a foundation to begin creating or rebuilding a loving, authentic relationship with your child. While raising a child certainly brings unbeatable pleasure, it also brings seemingly insurmountable obstacles, confusion, and general upset to both parties.Īt Open Path, we are here to offer a helping hand to those looking for direction. Open Paths Counseling Center currently serves between 1000 – 1200 unique clients annually.One of the biggest accomplishments in life can be raising a functional, healthy human being. Services continue to be offered both virtually and in person, in English and Spanish. 2017 brought our first non-school outreach partnership, which eventually grew into our Therapy Outreach Program, a program serving community members in their neighborhoods through partnerships with nonprofit social service and educational organizations.Īfter pivoting to 100% remote operations in March of 2020, due to the global pandemic, Open Paths moved to a new facility in Inglewood, CA in the fall of 2021. Our Therapy In Schools program was developed in 1998, and has served Title 1 schools in Los Angeles since then. In 1988, Cosmos Circle, the only HIV/AIDS support center on the westside at the time, was formed as part of Open Paths. In 1987, Another Way, our Intimate Partners Abuse Intervention Program (DV), became a program of Open Paths through a merger. In 1979, the therapists incorporated as a nonprofit organization and began training pre-licensed psychotherapists in the early l980s. These visionaries saw a need for low-cost counseling services on Los Los Angeles’s westside and rented the upstairs of a Victorian house in LAs’ Mar Vista neighborhood. Open Paths Counseling Center was founded in 1975 by two marriage & family therapists and three probation officers.

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