The Hidden Price of Forcing Family Time with Your Teen
You know you have a limited number of days before your teen leaves home so you’re trying to maintain some family structure and quality time
10 Strategies For Conquering Summer School
Now your teen is starting summer school and already seeing the pattern that’s going to create more of the same, a total lack of motivation
6 Tips to Survive Family Vacation with Your Teen
Unfortunately, not everyone feels the same enthusiasm as you do. Your teen is grumpy because they’d rather do nothing, hang out with friends and be
Boundaries – They are not what you think
The truth is that style of parenting creates insecurity, anxiety, codependence, and even trauma without higher and higher levels of control. Perhaps the same ones
This is not a hotel
Your home seemed oddly quiet and their quirky, sometimes annoying habits now felt endearing. You missed their voice and weird sayings, seeing their face as
Is coparenting giving your teen whiplash?
You didn’t begin your marriage planning for it to end, or believing you’d be co-parenting with a person you once called spouse. This isn’t about
Prom, parties and an emergency plan
That’s all good and well for the day-to-day comings and goings of your teen’s active social life. Then junior and senior years come along and
7 Tips to Help Your Teen Clean Their Room
You’ve offered to help, you’ve threatened, set consequences, all the things, and none of that’s working so you keep cycling from resentment, to angry, to
Everything Changed When My Teen Met ‘Them’
Now your teen is checking off risky behaviours and bad habits like it’s a speed race, using vapes, weed, drinking, swearing, etc. Even their face
You don’t LEARN to parent, you just know
You weren’t taught, you learned. From the time you were born, you’ve been absorbing what’s ‘normal’ in parent/child relationships, even when you didn’t agree. You
The Hidden Price of Forcing Family Time with Your Teen
You know you have a limited number of days before your teen leaves home so you’re trying to maintain some family structure and quality time
10 Strategies For Conquering Summer School
Now your teen is starting summer school and already seeing the pattern that’s going to create more of the same, a total lack of motivation
6 Tips to Survive Family Vacation with Your Teen
Unfortunately, not everyone feels the same enthusiasm as you do. Your teen is grumpy because they’d rather do nothing, hang out with friends and be
Boundaries – They are not what you think
The truth is that style of parenting creates insecurity, anxiety, codependence, and even trauma without higher and higher levels of control. Perhaps the same ones
This is not a hotel
Your home seemed oddly quiet and their quirky, sometimes annoying habits now felt endearing. You missed their voice and weird sayings, seeing their face as
Is coparenting giving your teen whiplash?
You didn’t begin your marriage planning for it to end, or believing you’d be co-parenting with a person you once called spouse. This isn’t about
Prom, parties and an emergency plan
That’s all good and well for the day-to-day comings and goings of your teen’s active social life. Then junior and senior years come along and
7 Tips to Help Your Teen Clean Their Room
You’ve offered to help, you’ve threatened, set consequences, all the things, and none of that’s working so you keep cycling from resentment, to angry, to
Everything Changed When My Teen Met ‘Them’
Now your teen is checking off risky behaviours and bad habits like it’s a speed race, using vapes, weed, drinking, swearing, etc. Even their face
You don’t LEARN to parent, you just know
You weren’t taught, you learned. From the time you were born, you’ve been absorbing what’s ‘normal’ in parent/child relationships, even when you didn’t agree. You