Parenting Successful Teens

How can you tell, before you click, if an article is going to be helpful to you?  Or will it just leave you feeling worse?

Listen this week as I deconstruct 2 articles in real time that purport to answer the same question - Why do kids of good parents struggle?  Both articles leave their reader worse off but in completely different ways.  By deconstructing them, I'll show you the tricks they use to get you to click, lull you into a sense of safety and then gut-punch you with guilt. If you are looking for support in 2023 to become more confident and have more fun with your family, click here.  This is a link to have a free conversation with me about what is going on with your family and what you'd like to create instead.  Together we'll make a plan that will get you there.  

Serious listener question:  I feel like I don't matter that much to my kids, now that they're teens.  What do I do? Recommendations + fun questions: * Biggest Pet Peeve.

* Favorite Parenting Book

* Favorite Holiday Tradition

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When it comes to parenting teenagers, your best move is to do things because you want to do them, not because you're banking on things like appreciation or even polite attendance as the expected outcome.  Because no one knows what outcome will happen.   So your best bet long term is to learn to pair activities that you can genuinely find joy in doing with your goals. Want my personal help in figuring out how to do that for your family?  Click here to find out more about how having personal support could benefit you.  The call is free and you'll leave seeing new possibilities for your family and with a clear best next step.

Improving your communication skills has long lasting effects on your kids.  When they become adults, their perception of their own social skills is influenced by how they communicate with you.   As parents, we can use the teen & young adult years to improve our relationship through better communication plus lay the foundation for our adult relationship.

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Psychologists say that there are basically only 4 parenting styles - permissive, authoritative, neglectful and authoritarian. 

Which one are you and which one is best?  Tune in this week to find out.

I created a garbage strategy* for Wordle and still got good at it pretty fast because I was having fun. It was a completely different garbage strategy than I'd been using for Duolingo that has kept my streak going for almost 3 years and 2 languages.  In this week's episode, I break these garbage strategies* down, because creating your own garbage strategies is going to make parenting your teens so much easier and more fun.   * garbage just means so simple that on my worst day and I feel like garbage they still work.

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Raging hormones?  Immature Brains?  Terrible time of misery only to be "gotten through" or endured with wine?  None of that is true.   Tune in this week to find out what the latest research has to say about teenage brains.

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As a recovering people pleaser, I developed an unconventional approach to make saying no or speaking up easier for me.  By easier I mean I made it possible for me to do without having to majorly psyche myself up. If you have trouble saying no to your kids, their teachers, you boss, the lady that wants you to help with the holiday fair...this episode is for you. After you listen to this episode, let's talk about putting this into action in your family.  Grab your free call here. 

Society bills maternal instincts as a sort of magical knowing that all moms have that tells them the right thing to do in any situation. 

So when moms feel confused or conflicted or don’t know what to do, it feels like something has gone wrong.  Like their maternal instincts have let them down.  Or they probably suck.  

Tune in this week to find out what maternal instincts actually are and how to build yours up in ways that will actually guide you.

Today I share my "borrowed from a business book" approach to setting parenting goals.  This is the process that set me free during the years when I truly struggled as a parent. Take a listen and feel free to email me your parenting goals so that I can celebrate with you! [email protected]