You didn’t realize this, but you signed a contract when you decided to have your teen all those years ago. Just in case you missed it because you were so blissfully happy they were born healthy and smelled of baby smell, I have cut and paste it here for you to read carefully now that [...]
Few teens know exactly what they want at this stage in the game called life, but that’s no reason to shirk their responsibilities as a “Decider.”
Making decisions and owning them is what sets the people who let life happen to them apart from those who actually decide to dodge the bullets and survive. Sometimes [...]
“I want to be a musician. I’ve been thinking about my passion and I think I want to be the next Missy Misdemeanor Elliot.” Well, we thought you were going to college. What about school?
The moment of truth, when your teen has the guts to tell you they don’t or rather they can’t fulfill [...]
Sometimes High School is just one big lesson on social relationships, friends. Your teen spends the first half of the teen years pulling from you; actually, getting as far away from you as possible and running to their friends then one day…
Their friends know more, are cooler than you and they have their back. One day [...]
“I’m not doing that! I’ll look like an idiot. I ain’t lookin’ like an idiot.” Have you heard that before? Maybe it came in the way of, “I want to hang out. My friends’ll think I’m a dork if I’m the only one that doesn’t show up because I’m doing my project so early.”
Lou Brock [...]
Your teen was born into this world by themselves. The balance you will create for them is that they are here by themselves as an independent force, but with the support of others. Support, but they still have to do it on their own.
This is about holding your teen accountable for things they must learn [...]
Teens can be reckless sometimes. They can be inconsiderate, selfish and downright frustrating. They think they know, but they don’t. They want to tell you how to do your job, but they don’t know enough to do theirs. They have doubt all the time, but they can’t tell you that so they act like they [...]
