“Don’t you ever get a spot on your shirt?” Dr Robert Simon (United States Forensic Psychologist) on how all parents make mistakes and understanding each families unique culture. AFCC series.

“Don’t you ever get a spot on your shirt?” Dr Robert Simon (United States Forensic Psychologist) on how all parents make mistakes and understanding each families unique culture specific to them. AFCC series.

• Focus of his talks at the AFCC Conference.
• Dr Simon’s history in family law, around the world and in particular in the United States.
• Understand a families “Culture” and their “culture”. Each family has their own culture unique to them.
• Usually, the greatest risk to children is the conflict in and of itself, not the thing they are having the conflict about: “The problem is not the problem.”
• It is incredibly hard, but rewarding to work through these issues as a parent:
• There is something about the process of conflict that draws you in. Parents are not bad people for having made mistakes: “I made all the mistakes.“
• How to change and learn how to put your children first during separation.
• The need for forgiveness of each other and of yourself.
• Do you ever get a spot on your shirt? Find a therapist who presents as authentic and fully human.