In the film Karate Kid starring Jaden Smith as Dre, there is a scene where he is asked to take his jacket off, place it on a hook, take it off the hook then put the jacket on. He is asked to do this repeatedly. Dre thinks he is simply being punished and wants to [...]
The only difference between a knight and a peasant is the clothes they’re wearing.“ This is a line taken from Robin Hood. Try telling this to your teen who may think that it’s the clothes they wear that get them noticed when it’s actually the way they carry themselves in any clothes that makes the [...]
Your teen will never remember what happened. How you got where you are now, barely talking to them. They won’t, but you will. If you try and explain what happened they will deny, deny, deny. This is why it’s better to prevent the whole thing in the first place. Your teen, at twelve or thirteen, [...]
Part of being a teen is looking around, comparing. They compare themselves to other teens, other adults, celebrities, you. Yes, they even compare themselves to you. They want to know how they are like you and different from you. They want to know if they have what is not so cool about you and what [...]
You become who you hang around. When your teen hangs around unmotivated people, they can become unmotivated. If they hang around successful people, they learn how to be successful and they become successful. The influence of people your teen chooses to hang around can be powerful. It can inspire your teen, or stifle them. On some [...]
“Daddy’s princess,” “Little Man,” “Gordo,” “Skinny Minnie,” these nicknames are in their own way endearing, but at some point when your toddler matures, develops their self-consciousness, and begins to take on the prejudices of society; gordo is going to mean fat. Once gordo is no longer endearing, your teen will start to think about [...]
At some point your teen is going to date. Maybe they’ll live at home maybe they won’t. But sooner or later, your teen will be interested in someone, date, maybe get married, etc. You know how it goes, but do you remember how it starts? It starts in your head. When you were a [...]
