How to Find Ease in Decision Making
This tool offers a structure for sifting through the information, options, ideas, options, etc. It helps put all everything out on the table, so to speak.
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How to Find Ease in Decision Making
The Importance of Having Fun WITH Your Teen
In this midst of all of the worthwhile work you are doing together, it is crucial that you and your teen are also making space for the lighter things in life. In my work with parents, I use a three-pronged focus on self-care, communication, and child-centered action. Each of these elements deserves, in fact, depends on, joy… YOU and your teenager deserve to have fun and to play.
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The Importance of Having Fun WITH Your Teen
How to Make Agreements with Teens
When you and your child or teen reach agreements TOGETHER, the buy-in is stronger. They are more likely to follow through with genuine interest and commitment.
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How to Make Agreements with Teens
How to Apologize to Your Teenager
When (not if) you make a “mistake,” you have an “opportunity to repair” the connection with your teenager.
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How to Apologize to Your Teenager
The Communication Tool that will Help You Get Your Needs Met
I've learned that when I take the time to identify what I need and share it with my spouse, for example, our presence and connection are enhanced.
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The Communication Tool that will Help You Get Your Needs Met
How To Hold Kind and Firm Limits With Your Teens
Limits don’t negate choices. Limits aren’t consequences or punishment. Instead, limits help young people understand boundaries-- their own and other people’s.
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How To Hold Kind and Firm Limits With Your Teens
Dear Parents, Your Teenager Doesn’t Need a Career Plan
The truth is, dreams come from one’s internal compass, not from external sources, pressures, or societal norms and expectations. Furthermore, teenagers need space to explore, reflect, experience, and process and come to their own truths, their own path.
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Dear Parents, Your Teenager Doesn’t Need a Career Plan
How to Use Curiosity Questions with Your Teen
When (not if) your teen presents an undesirable behavior or seems "shut down", you have an opportunity to ASK about it, rather than telling them about (aka lecturing them).
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How to Use Curiosity Questions with Your Teen
5 Awesome Ways to Create Quality Time with Your Teenager
Are we expecting our day to go exactly as we planned it in our daydream? Are we holding so tight that we are missing out on opportunities to build relationship with our loved ones?
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5 Awesome Ways to Create Quality Time with Your Teenager
How to Create Routines and Rituals with Your Teenager
Sometimes, routines feel like work, even when they are supportive. Rituals, though, feel like sweet, kind self-care.
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How to Create Routines and Rituals with Your Teenager