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The REAL Reason Why Your Kid Won’t Let You Take a Vacation

July 06, 20211 min read

You have plans to go on a romantic vacation with your spouse for the first time in years.

 

Your marriage needs this. 

 

When was the last time you REALLY connected, with zero distractions?

 

You try to get away… you’re at dinner, your phone rings… and it’s your kid. Again.

 

Immediate dread.

 

They are hysterical because Nana doesn’t know the password to the iPad.

 

This is the third time they have called in the last hour. 

 

You say, “Why did I even bother?”

 

…What do you do?

 

If this sounds familiar, what if I told you there was an option that didn’t rely on survival-mode parenting? 

 

You need a system, support, accountability, and a plan.

 

Join me LIVE to learn how to stop your HSC from melting down when you have to leave town.

 

If you're ready to break this down with clear, evidenced based playful strategies to create a system that has worked with 100's of families, book a call with our team. We're ready.

megghanthompsoncoaching.com/talk 

 

Parents of sensitive teens:

megghanthompsoncoaching.com/teentalk

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Megghan Thompson, LCPC, RPT-S

I help parents who are worried about managing their child’s explosive and out of control emotions to develop an individualized system to manage their kid’s explosive feelings when they don’t fit the examples in typical parenting books. I know you are a parent of a Highly Sensitive Child and are ready to stop scouring the internet for new strategies, throw out those traditional parenting books that don’t match your kid, and develop an individualized system to manage your kid’s explosive feelings.

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