Tweet Parenting is an act of courage. Every day there are decisions that ask you to either see the effect of that decision or succumb to the immediate relief or gratification of a decision. These decisions teach your teen something whether you are conscious in that moment or not. These decisions are an act of ...…
Tweet There is a strong desire for you to protect your teen. You cringe at the close calls of their life whizzing around corners and shudder to yourself they’re only thirteen. Eeeesh! The news doesn’t always help either. It seems there is always some new fangled way some mystery group of teens has thought up ...…
Tweet “No matter how encouraging I am, my teen still seems doubtful.” Encouragement helps your teen do better, but what should you be encouraging? Remember, teens are concrete thinkers especially early on. Encouraging things like effort or kindness and even helping out are vague and don’t always make a direct association to something they did. ...…
Tweet As the parent of a teen, you will take things your teen does personally. This is part of what makes the relationship so screwy. Yeah, that’s a technical term for expletives. Your teen is thinking with their brain and their value system and it happens to be different from yours. Your reaction to this ...…
