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Solution: Human Connection for Your Teen & Young Adult

5/28/2020

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Solution: Human Connection for your Teen & Young Adult
Dear Friends,
  • Do you worry about your teen/young adult struggling more now due to a lack of in-person socialization?
  • Do you wish they were embracing the moment more, regardless of what is happening in the world?

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Calming in a World of Chaos

1/9/2020

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I’m used to talking to parents, whether in my articles or in my sessions with them, about how to help their teenagers make stressful adjustments we’ve all had to make at some point in our lives. What qualifies us to teach our teens is that we’ve been through it before and have gained wisdom from lived experience. But what about the things we haven’t figured out yet? 
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5 Tips to Motivate Your Teen

7/14/2018

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5 Tips to Motivate Your Teen
As they say, you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink. The same is true for your teen. Though we may know what’s best for our kids (or at least think we do), we can’t make them do it. They have to want to do it themselves. In other words, they have to be motivated. In today’s article I share five tips to help your teens get–and stay–motivated.
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How to Open Your Teen’s Mind

5/4/2018

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How to Open Your Teen’s Mind
One of our most sacred roles as parents is to prepare our children for a successful future. What success means to each of us may differ, but we can all agree that resilience, flexibility, and adaptability play a large role. How, then, do we weave these qualities in our kids?
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The Truth about Teens and Weed

12/29/2017

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On an afternoon I’ll never forget, one of my teen clients walked through the door, dropped into a chair, and proudly stated that he had discovered the key to happiness: weed. It’s his medicine, he says, and it makes him feel good. If he could only get a medical marijuana card, everything would be solved.
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It’s Time to Tell Your Teens the Truth

7/2/2016

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It’s Time to Tell Your Teens the Truth
From the minute we open our eyes to the moment we close them for sleep, today’s media works overtime to remind us just how dangerous the world has become. It’s a miracle, we’re led to believe, just to survive the week.
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Guiding Your Teens to Envision — and Build — The Lives They Want

7/2/2016

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Guiding Your Teens to Envision -- And Build -- The Lives They Want
How does a teen who can’t remember his lunch money or his homework and rarely makes his bed become an adult who creates the kind of life that brings him meaning, purpose… and joy? Does he just magically stumble into the keys to life in high school, or college?
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How Teens Become Responsible Adults

7/2/2016

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How Teens Become Responsible Adults
In this world of working parents and video games, in some families, teens can go through childhood and adolescence without a real sense of responsibility. They’re occupied, but not prepared for a successful life. Having responsibility for things that matter and that contribute to the welfare of others is part of a teen’s preparation for the future.

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