Using the Magic Of Mutual Respect To Get Through To Your Teen!! We interviewed Melissa, the Mom of four teenagers, and found her practical wisdom on how to come from a place of mutual respect with a teen to be invaluable. Melissa has a blended family (one stepson plus two sons & one daughter of …
You Can Deal Successfully With the Stress of Ongoing Disagreements With Your Teen by Following This Mom’s Example! Are you and your teen having an ongoing battle – with you wanting them to change their behavior, but they just keep doing it their way? Are you butting heads with your teen over some issue and neither …
This post is about how to “be” with your child throughout the school year to support the development of their self-confidence. Emotions are contagious so you want to get your own feelings taken care of …take the time to reflect on your own school experiences and your “just get through it years” if you had …
The video above stands by itself as an educational piece but if you want more information and ways to USE what is being demonstrated then read this post. As family counselors we have the good fortune to work with many wonderful families who co-design with us their own successful programs to handle the problems they …
Parents don’t agree on everything and they certainly don’t need to. But one dream that we all share is that our children enjoy emotional safety. I’m a parent and a grandparent and an author of a parenting book, yet I’ve never let these words roll off my tongue. Still if I describe emotional safety, I …
In our family counseling practice and at our parent education events, we hear over and over again, “What do I say next?” and “When s/he doesn’t agree with me, then what do I say back?” so we decided to show you what to say and how well it can work! This is a video demonstration …