Single Parenting Reset Show: For Solo Parents of Tweens and Teens — Manage Behavior Problems, Reduce Screen Time & Improve Communication

Tess Connolly LCSW talks with Jason Brown about getting through college debt free. Jason shares his story of how he did it and gives you tips of how you can do it too. 

• Jason shares his story of how he got two degrees without getting himself into debt, and shares tips that you may not have thought of on how you can save money on your tuition fees and ways that you can get scholarships to help pay for your college degree. 
• Jason shares other non traditional options to get qualifications and how it is often a much cheaper option than going to college. 
• Tess and Jason discuss the choice of going to a brand name college and the difference of choosing not to go to a brand name college. They talk about it being ultimately about the degree you are getting, not about the college you attend. They discuss this choice and look at it from both sides of the story. 
• Tess and Jason talk about connections that you make in college and how important that is in 2022, now we are in a digital era. They discuss whether these connections are still possible if you choose to go to an unbranded college. 
• Jason shares some different alternatives to going to college. 
• Jason also shares some regrets that he had during his college days, which offers some more tips and ways that you can save money during your time in college. 
• Jason is most grateful for his health, family and his friends. 

If you would like to read Jason's book ‘It is possible’ all about getting through college debt free, follow this link to find out more. IT IS POSSIBLE! - YOUR MARGIN MATTER$ (yourmarginmatters.com)

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📧Connect with Therese (Tess) Connolly, LCSW, CCC here: [email protected]

Website: www.mindfulkidsandfamilies.com

Need 1:1 Support?  Book right here to connect with Tess for a 20 minute FREE “Parent Reset” session: https://calendly.com/mindfulkidsandfamilies/20discover

💫Want support from other parents in an authentic community? Get on the Parenting Reset Membership Waitlist here: The Parenting Reset Membership Waitlist- next openings are in early March 2022🙌

This episode first aired under the original name, The Parenting Reset Show. Now we are the Single Parenting Reset podcast–supporting single parents of tweens and teens with real talk on screen time, communication and managing behavior.

Has conflict with your tween or teen left your relationship feeling strained or disconnected?

In this solo episode, Tess Connolly, LCSW, shares five clear, actionable strategies for repairing your relationship with your child during the challenging tween and teen years. From taking responsibility for your own actions to creating space for honest conversations in family meetings, Tess walks you through practical steps — and the language — to rebuild trust and connection.

• Learn five strategies to repair and strengthen your parent-teen relationship.
• Discover how to use family meetings and intentional listening to rebuild trust.
• Understand why patience and consistency are key to lasting repair

Press play to start the repair process and create a stronger, healthier connection with your tween or teen.

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📧Connect with Therese (Tess) Connolly, LCSW, CCC here👇: [email protected] Website: www.mindfulkidsandfamilies.com

🆘 Need 1:1 Support? Book right here to connect with Tess for a 45-minute FREE “Parent Reset Strategy Session”: Parent Reset Strategy Session

The Single Parenting Reset Show supports single moms, working moms, and all parents with practical parenting tips on screen time, emotional regulation, co-parenting, stress relief, setting boundaries, building trust, and raising confident tweens and teens, while tackling tech addiction, behavior problems, and parent burnout with conscious parenting strategies for stronger family connection.

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Tess Connolly LCSW talks about how to repair our relationship with our tweens and teens. She offers 5 strategies for repairing our relationships with our children and gives examples and the language to help guide your understanding. 

• Tess talks about the shift in relationships as your child reaches middle school and the teen years. 
• Tess talks about acknowledging the conflict that you have had with your tween or teen and  bringing your focus to your behavior and language and taking responsibility for your actions and what you said or did.
• The importance of having family meetings and having that space to talk about ways you can have healthier relationships with each other. 
• Know that this may take some time to get used to and give your tween and teen the space to talk and say what they are feeling and for you to take the time to listen. 
• Tess gives some examples and strategies of what you can do while practicing these ways of communication with your tween and teen. 
• Tess talks about the importance of patience and that all the strategies that she has shared are the ‘ideal’ but you are both learning how to do this and the important part is for you to stay consistent. 
• The need for professional help if you have significant unhealthy patterns of continued fights and arguments without repair. 

⭐️Join MKF weekly Parenting  Journal here:  Mindful Kids and Families Journal 

(Get ready for lessons, podcast leads, offers for parents and ways to win free parent coaching or masterclasses)

📧Connect with Therese (Tess) Connolly, LCSW, CCC here: [email protected]

Website: www.mindfulkidsandfamilies.com

Need 1:1 Support?  Book right here to connect with Tess for a 20 minute FREE “Parent Reset” session: https://calendly.com/mindfulkidsandfamilies/20discover

💫Want support from other parents in an authentic community? Get on the Parenting Reset Membership Waitlist here: The Parenting Reset Membership Waitlist- next openings are in early March 2022🙌

This episode first aired under the original name, The Parenting Reset Show. Now we are the Single Parenting Reset podcast–supporting single parents of tweens and teens with real talk on screen time, communication and managing behavior.

Is parenting stress starting to spill over into your marriage or partnership?

In this episode, Tess Connolly, LCSW, talks with therapist and author Susan Gadoua, LCSW, about the unique challenges couples face when raising tweens and teens. Susan shares her “3 B’s” framework — Bandwidth, Boundaries, and Bounty — to help couples manage stress in a healthy way, maintain strong relationships, and create more harmony at home. They also discuss how having choices in how you structure your partnership can bring empowerment and clarity during challenging seasons.

• Learn the 3 B’s for reducing stress and strengthening your relationship.
• Discover strategies for managing parenting and marriage challenges simultaneously.
• Understand why partnership health is essential to family well-being.

Press play to explore practical ways to protect and strengthen your relationship while navigating the tween and teen years together.

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⭐️Join the Family and get your weekly Mindful Kids and Family Journal here: https://www.mindfulkidsandfamilies.com/join-the-family (Get ready for lessons, podcast leads, offers for parents, and ways to win free parent coaching or masterclasses)

📧Connect with Therese (Tess) Connolly, LCSW, CCC here👇: [email protected] Website: www.mindfulkidsandfamilies.com

🆘 Need 1:1 Support? Book right here to connect with Tess for a 45-minute FREE “Parent Reset Strategy Session”: Parent Reset Strategy Session

The Single Parenting Reset Show supports single moms, working moms, and all parents with practical parenting tips on screen time, emotional regulation, co-parenting, stress relief, setting boundaries, building trust, and raising confident tweens and teens, while tackling tech addiction, behavior problems, and parent burnout with conscious parenting strategies for stronger family connection.

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Tess Connolly LCSW talks with Susan Gadoua, LCSW about managing stress within our marriages and partnerships. They talk about the different stresses that happen when our children go through their tween and teen years,  and how we can manage these in a healthy way that creates less stress within our relationships. 

• Susan talks about the work she does helping women who are divorced and couples that are struggling and need help to navigate during this time. She also talks about her three books that she has written and gives us a bit of information about their content.
• Tess and Susan talk about how marriages start to struggle through conflict that they find when children are entering their tween and teen years and what parents face and the different challenges that this brings along with it, within their partnership.  
• Susan talks about usual techniques that we can use to manage stress and she shares with us how stress isn't bad in itself but too much stress is bad and we need to be aware of how we are managing ourselves through these moments. 
• Tess and Susan discuss her technique of the 3 B’s. (Bandwidth, Boundaries and Bounty) They discuss these 3 B’s and how we can work through these within our partnerships when we are faced with challenges with our tween and teens. 
• Susan talks about her book that she wrote with Vicki Larson and she tells us about the seven alternative marriages that are explained within the book focusing on the three that are most pertinent for most people.  
• Susan talks about people knowing that they have a choice and to find choice where you can which helps us feel empowered. 
• Susan is most grateful for her resilience and her ability to get through challenges in life through gaining the tools that she has learnt in life.   

💫Want support from other parents in an authentic community? Get on the Parenting Reset Membership Waitlist here: The Parenting Reset Membership Waitlist- next openings are in early March 2022🙌

⭐️Join MKF weekly Parenting  Journal here:  Mindful Kids and Families Journal ....Get ready for lessons, podcast leads, offers for parents and ways to win free parent coaching or masterclasses

📧Connect with Therese (Tess) Connolly, LCSW, CCC here: [email protected]

Website: www.mindfulkidsandfamilies.com

Need 1:1 Support?  Book right here to connect with Tess for a 20 minute FREE “Parent Reset” session: https://calendly.com/mindfulkidsandfamilies/20discover

This episode first aired under the original name, The Parenting Reset Show. Now we are the Single Parenting Reset podcast–supporting single parents of tweens and teens with real talk on screen time, communication and managing behavior.

Are you missing the simplest — and most powerful — ways to connect with your tween or teen?

In this solo episode, Tess Connolly, LCSW, shares three often-overlooked strategies for building stronger connections with your kids during the tween and teen years. From finding shared interests to showing up in their world outside the home, Tess explains how these small, consistent actions can create trust, understanding, and deeper bonds.

• Learn three practical ways to strengthen your connection with your tween or teen.
• Discover how shared activities and interests can open doors to better communication.
• Understand the power of listening and presence in your parent-child relationship.

Press play to find out how a few simple shifts can create more meaningful moments with your tween or teen.

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⭐️Join the Family and get your weekly Mindful Kids and Family Journal here: https://www.mindfulkidsandfamilies.com/join-the-family (Get ready for lessons, podcast leads, offers for parents, and ways to win free parent coaching or masterclasses)

📧Connect with Therese (Tess) Connolly, LCSW, CCC here👇: [email protected] Website: www.mindfulkidsandfamilies.com

🆘 Need 1:1 Support? Book right here to connect with Tess for a 45-minute FREE “Parent Reset Strategy Session”: Parent Reset Strategy Session

The Single Parenting Reset Show supports single moms, working moms, and all parents with practical parenting tips on screen time, emotional regulation, co-parenting, stress relief, setting boundaries, building trust, and raising confident tweens and teens, while tackling tech addiction, behavior problems, and parent burnout with conscious parenting strategies for stronger family connection.

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Tess Connolly LCSW talks about 3 simple but overlooked ways of making the best connection with your tween/teen. 

• Tess talks about a recent discussion that she had with a client about ways we can connect with our tween and teens by sharing an interest, hobby or any activity with our kids other than reminding or re-directing them to do the laundry.
• Tess talks about being involved in our kids lives outside the home as much as possible and some ordinary but overlooked ways we can do that each day.
• Tess talks about making time to bridge these connections through our hectic lives as these moments are so important in our parent/child relationships.
• Tess shares with us how important it is to listen and pay attention to our tween and teens behavior and how much we gather about our teen by listening. 

⭐️Join Tess’ weekly parenting  journal here:  Mindful Kids and Families Journal 

(Get ready for lessons, podcast leads, offers for parents and ways to win free parent coaching or masterclasses)

📧Connect with Therese (Tess) Connolly, LCSW, CCC here: [email protected]

Website: www.mindfulkidsandfamilies.com

Need 1:1 Support?  Book right here to connect with Tess for a 20 minute FREE “Parent Reset” session: https://calendly.com/mindfulkidsandfamilies/20discover

💫Want support from other parents in an authentic community? Get on the Parenting Reset Membership Waitlist here: The Parenting Reset Membership Waitlist- next openings are in late February/Early March 2022🙌

This episode first aired under the original name, The Parenting Reset Show. Now we are the Single Parenting Reset podcast–supporting single parents of tweens and teens with real talk on screen time, communication and managing behavior.

Could your tween or teen be missing skills they were meant to learn before second grade — and could you be missing them too?

In this episode, Tess Connolly, LCSW, talks with child development expert Dr. Carol Scott about her “7 Stair Steps” for self-awareness success: trust, dependence, faith, negotiation, vision, compromise, and acceptance. They explore how gaps in these skills can affect relationships, emotional regulation, and resilience — and how both parents and kids can learn or “reset” them at any age. Dr. Scott also shares insights into the surprising similarities between 3-year-olds and tweens, plus practical strategies to help families strengthen these essential abilities.

• Learn the 7 essential skills your tween or teen needs for strong relationships and self-awareness.
• Discover how to identify and recover skills you may have missed in your own early development.
• Get actionable strategies to help your kids (and yourself) grow in trust, negotiation, vision, and more.

Press play to explore how a developmental reset can unlock new growth for you and your children.

Click this link to access The “Sassy Self Bookette” Your_sassy_self_bookette.pdf

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⭐️Join the Family and get your weekly Mindful Kids and Family Journal here: https://www.mindfulkidsandfamilies.com/join-the-family (Get ready for lessons, podcast leads, offers for parents, and ways to win free parent coaching or masterclasses)

📧Connect with Therese (Tess) Connolly, LCSW, CCC here👇: [email protected] Website: www.mindfulkidsandfamilies.com

🆘 Need 1:1 Support? Book right here to connect with Tess for a 45-minute FREE “Parent Reset Strategy Session”: Parent Reset Strategy Session

The Single Parenting Reset Show supports single moms, working moms, and all parents with practical parenting tips on screen time, emotional regulation, co-parenting, stress relief, setting boundaries, building trust, and raising confident tweens and teens, while tackling tech addiction, behavior problems, and parent burnout with conscious parenting strategies for stronger family connection.

#singleparents #parentingtweensandteens #ScreenTime #behaviorproblems #Communication

Tess Connolly LCSW talks with Dr Carol Scott about a developmental reset for self awareness success, a 7 step strategy which looks back at skills that we should have gained in our younger years but we may be missing in our later years. They discuss how learning these skills now and resetting our brains can help our tweens and teens grow and learn and help them thrive in their lives by learning the skills that perhaps we were missing. 

• Dr Carol Scott tells us about her journey into child development and the work she has done in this area over her career and the work she does now with adults delivering strategies to help adults learn these 7 success skills they should have learned in their younger years. 
• Dr Carol Scott shares her knowledge on the seven stair steps (trust, dependence, faith, negotiation, vision, compromise and acceptance) from birth to second grade and explains the process that children go through at this age and how this is relevant to self awareness success.  
• Dr Carol Scott talks about the importance of these 7 skills areas in our tweens and teens lives and how these skills are so important in them forming great relationships through these important years in their life. 
• Tess and Dr Carol Scott talk about the confusing time that tweens and teens are going through and how they are trying to balance so many emotions and hormonal changes alongside their brain going through pivotal changes as they move through these years. 
• Dr Carol Scott offers some strategies and advice to parents as to how we can help our children develop the skills in the seven stair steps. She talks about how we need to take a look at where we are, so we can recover ourselves in order to help our children grow and learn these skills. 
• Tess and Dr Carol Scott talk about the similarities in development of 3yr olds and tweens in the way they are willing to try anything and throw themselves at the world. 
• Dr Carol Scott is most grateful for living in the warm weather of Baja, Mexico through the winter months and she is also grateful for the childhood that she had so she could go through the healing and recovery so she could use this experience to help other people recover and help others rewire their brain through her work. 

Click this link to access The “Sassy Self Bookette” Your_sassy_self_bookette.pdf

⭐️Join Tess’ weekly parenting  journal here:  Mindful Kids and Families Journal 

(Get ready for lessons, podcast leads, offers for parents and ways to win free parent coaching or masterclasses)

📧Connect with Therese (Tess) Connolly, LCSW, CCC here: [email protected]

Website: www.mindfulkidsandfamilies.com

Need 1:1 Support?  Book right here to connect with Tess for a 20 minute FREE “Parent Reset” session: https://calendly.com/mindfulkidsandfamilies/20discover

💫Want support from other parents in an authentic community? Get on the Parenting Reset Membership Waitlist here: The Parenting Reset Membership Waitlist- next openings are in late February 2022🙌

This episode first aired under the original name, The Parenting Reset Show. Now we are the Single Parenting Reset podcast–supporting single parents of tweens and teens with real talk on screen time, communication and managing behavior.

Want to know what really works when it comes to communicating with your teen — straight from a teen herself?

In this episode, Tess Connolly, LCSW, talks with teenager and blogger Kiera Gray, creator of Inside the Teen Mind, about her mission to help parents better understand and connect with their teens. Kiera shares her top three communication strategies, tips for using dialogue that fosters trust, and ways to support teens in navigating the tricky world of social media while keeping your relationship strong.

• Learn three actionable ways to improve communication with your teen.
• Discover how to approach social media as a supportive guide, not a critic.
• Hear directly from a teen how parents can build trust and connection during the adolescent years.

Press play to get insider advice from a teen who’s helping parents and kids bridge the communication gap.

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⭐️Join the Family and get your weekly Mindful Kids and Family Journal here: https://www.mindfulkidsandfamilies.com/join-the-family (Get ready for lessons, podcast leads, offers for parents, and ways to win free parent coaching or masterclasses)

📧Connect with Therese (Tess) Connolly, LCSW, CCC here👇: [email protected] Website: www.mindfulkidsandfamilies.com

🆘 Need 1:1 Support? Book right here to connect with Tess for a 45-minute FREE “Parent Reset Strategy Session”: Parent Reset Strategy Session

The Single Parenting Reset Show supports single moms, working moms, and all parents with practical parenting tips on screen time, emotional regulation, co-parenting, stress relief, setting boundaries, building trust, and raising confident tweens and teens, while tackling tech addiction, behavior problems, and parent burnout with conscious parenting strategies for stronger family connection.

#singleparents #parentingtweensandteens #ScreenTime #behaviorproblems #Communication