Having Difficult Conversations With Your Teen
Whether it is a conversation that is difficult to have because it may frighten or sadden your child, or it is difficult because it is...
What a boundary is and is not
Often parents will put all their parenting energy into trying to set boundaries, create punishments, implement scare tactics, and...
Parenting is not an even relationship.
While it is important to maintain your boundaries and to protect yourself when you are having conflict with your teen, it is more...
Drugs, Alcohol, Partying, And Your Teen
Movies have been written about it, everyone knows it is going to happen, but few parents know exactly what to do. I am talking about...
Enabling and Resenting
Parents want the best for their children. They envision the best for their children as being that their child obeys, respects, learns,...
The Black Bag Boundary
As I have mentioned before boundaries are often seen as a way to change your teen, usually through punishment and reward. Theoretically...
1st lesson in boundaries!
There are countless books written about setting boundaries in parenting. For every book there is a slightly different teaching and...
Protecting and Resenting
Loving parents often struggle with giving consequences while at the same time protecting their child from consequences that are natural. ...
Influential Parenting
It is so important to get away from trying to persuade, cajole, manipulate, and control your teens. I want you to get in the frame of...
