How to Help Your Teen Stop Procrastinating and Finish Their Summer Reading with Ease
Does your teen continually put off starting their summer reading? Does your teen think they have plenty of time and that you are being ridiculous for suggesting getting started on their summer reading? Some teens hate to read and will always avoid it. However, even teens who enjoy books like my kids, sometimes resist reading […]
How to Help Your Teen Take the Sting Out of Being Excluded and Stay Confident
Whether you are a teen or an adult, being excluded never feels good. As we get older, we understand that it is unrealistic that everyone is going to like us. We still want to be included, but it doesn’t throw us into the Chronic Stress Loop when we don’t make the invite list. However, […]
How to Help Your Teen Stop Arguing and Stay Calm
Does your teen “love” to argue? Does your teen always have to have the last word? While this behavior can be very tiring and frustrating to us as parents, if we can begin to see it as a behavior that gets activated when our teen feels stressed, then it is easier to be supportive and […]
Help Your Teen Create Healthy Habits for the Summer
The school year is coming to an end. Pretty soon your teen’s schedule won’t be quite as packed. While the looser schedule is one of the joys of summer, sometimes our teens have too much idle time. As parents, we know the summer is coming, and we plan activities like camp, travel, volunteering and […]
Help Your Teen Break Out of the Chronic Stress Loop
Every teen soothes stress in their own unique way. From an adult perspective, your teen’s unwanted behavior or habits might be frustrating. Once you understand that it is just your teen’s way of calming the panic and stress, it is easier to support your teen rather than being annoyed. As a mother of two teens, […]
How to Motivate Your Teen to Take More Action and Create Success
Have you heard of the negativity bias? It’s the concept that even if the positive events outweigh the negative events significantly, we still tend to focus on the negative. The general rule is that you need to say five positive things to your teen for every one negative comment because focusing on their wins really […]
How Accountability Helps Your Teen Create Healthy Habits that Stick
Changing habits is not easy. If all your teen needed to do to create a new healthy habit was decide with their conscious mind to do so, then it would happen pretty effortlessly. However, your teen’s habits are activated by their subconscious mind, and until your teen repeats the habit consistently, the subconscious mind will […]
Help Your Teen Create Healthy Default Habits and Stress Less
You might think that your teen has a lot of control over their decisions, but the truth is teens and adults alike make most of their daily decisions out of habit. They have automatic responses that get programmed into their subconscious, and unless your teen makes a concentrated effort to change their default habits they […]
Your Teen Will Experience Stress: Help Them Manage it Better
If you ask most parents what they want for their children, their response is, “I want them to be happy”. While this is obviously a great goal, no teen will be happy all the time because stress is a natural part of life. You can not protect your teen from every stressful situation, but you […]
How The Sandwich Technique Calms Your Teen’s Stress
The Sandwich Technique is one way your teen can utilize The Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) or Tapping to calm stress in the moment. When we feel stress, our fight and flight response is activated. Our ancestors main stress was survival, so the amygdala starts pumping out hormones like cortisol and adrenaline, to help us run away or fight dangerous situations like being chased by a tiger. While this was perfect when our reaction to stress required physical movement, today, stress happens mostly in our minds.