Supporting vs Enabling - When Help Stops Helping w/Vashti Summervill, Certified Parent Coach
Tue, Mar 02
|Cathedral Of The Rockies
(Resilient Parents Support Group) Where's the line between helping our kids and doing too much for them? Join Certified Parent Coach Vashti Summervill to learn how to tell the difference — and why it matters more than most of us realize.
Time & Location
Mar 02, 2027, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Cathedral Of The Rockies, 717 N 11th St #4, Boise, ID 83702, USA
About the event
Every parent wants to protect their kid from struggle. But research on adolescent development consistently shows that manageable stress — a hard test, a social conflict, a consequence they have to sit with — is often how kids build the skills and confidence they'll need later. When we step in too quickly or too often, we can unintentionally teach our kids that they can't handle things on their own, even when they actually can.
In this session, Certified Parent Coach Vashti Summervill will help parents recognize the difference between supporting a child through something hard and enabling them to avoid it altogether.
Parents will leave with:
A simple way to know when to step in and when to step back
A better sense of why some struggle is actually good for kids
Words to use when you want to help but shouldn't