With all the busyness that parenting teenagers entails (homework, sports, after-school activities, sleepovers, college applications, financial aid, finals, parent/teen relationship struggles, etc.), sometimes practicing good communication can fall to the wayside. It’s important to remember that we will never influence and empower our teens to be their best selves without applying effective communication strategies . […]
Communication Strategies that Empower and Influence Your Teen, Part 1
After just finishing up a weekend that focused on all things “Mom,” (and what a great weekend it was!), parenting is fresh on my mind. Parenting is good work. It’s certainly not easy, but it’s vitally important work that forever impacts the lives of the next generation. As I reflect back to when I was […]
Connect! (Part 2): Harnessing the 4 Motivations That Drive Human Behavior
I (Arlyn) recently spoke with an alternative education teacher who told me how her school can predict when a new student will have negative outburst. She told me, “Three weeks, pretty much to the day, is when they’ll act out. They’ll be defiant, or steal something, or throw something … or display some other behavior […]
Connect! The Best Way to Help Students Succeed
One of my (Arlyn’s) five children had a rather low GPA when he was in high school, relative to his capacity (and much to his parents’ constant dismay). It was a good thing he was an excellent test taker, because that, more than anything else, was what saved his bacon! He frequently told us, “Don’t […]
The Media and Your Teen: What is the Entertainment Industry Telling Them?
Has this happened to you? You tell your teenager something a hundred times over and get nowhere. Then someone slightly cooler comes along, says the same thing, and gets an instant response. Don’t worry. You didn’t do anything wrong. It’s a normal phenomenon! As the teen years progress, most moms and dads notice their teens […]
Building Positive Relationship Capital With Teens
When my wife and I first became parents, we naïvely assumed our kids would be just like us. I always imagined that we’d have a little “mini me” (or at least a “mini we!”) running around the house. That theory went out the window as our firstborn began “revealing himself.” We had given birth to […]
How to Hold an Intervention for Your Child
Seeing your child go through an ordeal like addiction could one day be more than just your worst nightmare — it could, one day, become your reality. As children grow they find themselves in new situations doing new things with new people. You can’t be with them at all times of the day when they […]
4 Tips to Help Teens Listen to Their Conscience and Stick to Their Values
Parents and teachers, your teens and students are facing tough decisions every single day, and their choices are only going to get more difficult. Where should they go to college? What should they major in? Should they really go to that party? Should they take things to the next level with their boyfriend or girlfriend? This week’s […]
What We Can Teach Our Kids by Losing Our Cool
As parents, we try to not lose our cool around our kids. We are often being watched and judged as parents by others but also our children. We experience frustration and become stressed that leads us to yelling, blaming, and disciplining our children unfairly. We can disappointment our kids and let them down too. Within […]
Three Tips to Help Teens Be Their Best Selves
I’m sure we can all relate. There are teens in your life (whether your children, students, or mentees) whom you want to see thrive. You want nothing but the best for them, and it can be discouraging when they make unwise decisions or when they perform poorly in a class, job interview, presentation, networking opportunity, […]
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