Lesson Tag: talking
Building an Extraordinary Relationship with your Teen through Everyday Conversations
Lesson Details
Conversation is a pathway to developing and sustaining a healthy and trusting relationship with your child. Hormones, attitude, and personality? Welcome to the tween and teen years. Learn to parent your independent, emerging adult, while still nurturing the playful child. You will have the opportunity to explore and prepare for real-life situations.
Course Lessons
Conversation is a pathway to developing and sustaining a healthy and trusting relationship with your child. Hormones, attitude, and personality? Welcome to the tween and teen years. Learn to parent your independent, emerging adult, while still nurturing the playful child. You will have the opportunity to explore and prepare for real-life situations.
8.16.21 Public Class Recording and Handouts
Lesson Details
As children enter adolescence, they have a natural desire for independence. Teenagers’ desire for freedom can be scary for parents/caregivers, however, it is what gradually turns your adolescent into a healthy adult.
Course Lessons
As children enter adolescence, they have a natural desire for independence. Teenagers’ desire for freedom can be scary for parents/caregivers, however, it is what gradually turns your adolescent into a healthy adult.
Talk to Your Teenager to Keep them Safe
Lesson Details
When teens feel like they can talk to their parents they are less likely to take risks with sex, drugs, and violence. Talking isn’t lecturing and this class will strengthen your listening as well as talking skills in ways that will help protect your teens and maybe even save your sanity.
Course Lessons
When teens feel like they can talk to their parents they are less likely to take risks with sex, drugs, and violence. Talking isn’t lecturing and this class will strengthen your listening as well as talking skills in ways that will help protect your teens and maybe even save your sanity.
Treat Yourself Kindly: How Positive Self-Talk Inspires Positive Body Image in Children
Lesson Details
There can be a fine line between encouraging healthy habits in our children and creating negative thoughts on body image and self-perception. We want the best for our children, but often forget that they are watching how we treat ourselves and model their own behaviors after that.
Course Lessons
There can be a fine line between encouraging healthy habits in our children and creating negative thoughts on body image and self-perception. We want the best for our children, but often forget that they are watching how we treat ourselves and model their own behaviors after that.
Talk to Your Teenager to Keep them Safe
Lesson Details
When teens feel like they can talk to their parents they are less likely to take risks with sex, drugs, and violence. Talking isn’t lecturing and this class will strengthen your listening as well as talking skills in ways that will help protect your teens and maybe even save your sanity.
Course Lessons
When teens feel like they can talk to their parents they are less likely to take risks with sex, drugs, and violence. Talking isn’t lecturing and this class will strengthen your listening as well as talking skills in ways that will help protect your teens and maybe even save your sanity.
Teens in Love: Romantic Relationships in the New Normal
Lesson Details
Learning to have romantic relationships and deal with sexually maturing bodies are essential tasks of healthy teen development. As the parents, you may feel as unprepared as your kids feel to navigate this ever-changing stage. While adolescents sometimes act like they know it all, they often feel vulnerable and unprepared for the social and sexual realities of romantic relationships. And the same may be true for you – maybe you are wondering how do I support exploration and independence while keeping my child safe, especially during these challenging times.
Participants in this class will be able to
- Apply steps to navigate teens’ romantic relationships with trust, compassion, clarity and consistency
- Identify strategies to balance monitoring with trust
- Recognize the connections between physical and romantic relationships with parental relationship health
Course Lessons
Learning to have romantic relationships and deal with sexually maturing bodies are essential tasks of healthy teen development. As the parents, you may feel as unprepared as your kids feel to navigate this ever-changing stage. While adolescents sometimes act like they know it all, they often feel vulnerable and unprepared for the social and sexual realities of romantic relationships. And the same may be true for you – maybe you are wondering how do I support exploration and independence while keeping my child safe, especially during these challenging times.
Participants in this class will be able to
- Apply steps to navigate teens’ romantic relationships with trust, compassion, clarity and consistency
- Identify strategies to balance monitoring with trust
- Recognize the connections between physical and romantic relationships with parental relationship health
Plan for Teen Independence – Part 2 – Reframe Your Thoughts
Lesson Details
Making plans with teens to try doing things on their own can help them succeed. Working together on independence can also put your mind a little more at ease.
Course Lessons
Making plans with teens to try doing things on their own can help them succeed. Working together on independence can also put your mind a little more at ease.
Plan for Teen Independence – Part 1 – Get Ready
Lesson Details
We all want our kids to grow up to be capable, competent people who can find their own way in the world. But the steps to getting there can seem daunting.
How do we know when our kids are ready to do things on their own? How do we keep them safe and set them free at the same time?
Course Lessons
We all want our kids to grow up to be capable, competent people who can find their own way in the world. But the steps to getting there can seem daunting.
How do we know when our kids are ready to do things on their own? How do we keep them safe and set them free at the same time?