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The Importance of Family Traditions: Building a Connection with Your Teen
Connecting with your teens during the holidays doesn’t have to be a battle…building traditions can help!
Understanding Your Teen’s Brain: How Adolescence Affects Behavior
Most people don’t realize that by the time their child becomes a teenager, their brain is developed in size but not in form.
How to Be Thankful When Things Feel Hopeless
Parents, when things are difficult between you and your teen, how do you remain thankful?
Helping Your Teen Manage Their Time
One of the greatest frustrations for parents are watching their teens sabotage their school work because they just can’t seem to manage their time.
How to Talk So Your Teen Will Listen
Parents often attempt to reach out to their teens and just can’t connect in a positive way. What has gone wrong?
Drinking, Drugs, and What Parents Can Do
Finding out your teen is using alcohol or drugs can feel like the floor just dropped out from under you. What can a parent do?
Helping Your Young Adult Plan for College Success
Your teen has been accepted into college and it won’t be long before they are off on their own. Exciting, right? Anxiety-provoking?
Why Does My Teen Spend So Much Time in Their Room?
One of the most frequent complaints I hear from parents is how much time their teen spends in their room. Is this something to be concerned about?
My Kid is 18 Now! What Do I Do?
Your 18-year-old is dependent enough to be taken care of independent enough to have a right to do more what they want…how do you cope?
Family Healing After Loss
How can parents help their family navigate loss while at the same time cope with their own grief?
Parental Alienation: What Is It, and What Can I Do to Help?
One of the most heart-breaking outcomes of a messy divorce is when one parent uses their teen as a pawn to continue to hurt their former spouse.
Helping Your Teen Learn Responsibility
Parents are often puzzled as to why it is so hard to get teens to be responsible. How do you get their buy-in and help support them master basic skills?
Tips for Validating Your Teen
Some parents struggle with this idea tend to mix up agreeing with validating…they are completely different!
Online Parent Coaching: Does It Work?
Many parents of teens wonder, is online parent coaching as effective as in-person parent coaching?
Parents: You Don’t Need Your Teen’s Approval!
Parents today often have a hard time when they set a limit with their teen. They want their teen to be okay with it.
Parents Sometimes Need to Be the "Bad Guy"
Even when teen know they need to hear "no," they will fight as if their life depended on it to get you to say “yes.” What can you do?
Suicide Prevention for Teens: What Can Parents Do?
If you believe your teen might be considering ending their life, here's a guide to understanding suicide prevention.
What is Normal Teen Pain vs. Depression and Anxiety?
Normal teen angst is temporary, and the mood may last a week, but not weeks on end, unremittingly.
How Can I Spend Time with My Teen When They Don’t Want Me To?
I cannot count all the times I have heard parents say that they invite their teen to spend time with them, and they decline. What can you do?
Life is Like That: When Your Teen Says “It’s Not Fair”
Part of the source of all the pressure parents feel today is due to our culture creating a mindset. How do we help teens deal with the “unfair” things in life?