If you struggle to hold consistent limits with your child… or if you find yourself either too rigid or too lenient, you’re not failing.

There’s a sentence I often hear in therapy, usually accompanied by a mix of guilt and confusion:

“But they’re still my mum.”

“But he’s still my dad.”

In today's world, there seems to be no distinction between our work lives and our home lives. Most of us are contactable at any time and no matter where we are in the world thanks to our ever-present mobile phones.

Boundaries are agreed on limitations on a relationship. The reason that we set boundaries in a relationship is so that others know what you are and are not willing to do.