- 12-year-old Rebecca tells you that nobody at her school likes her
- 11-year-old Sally says that you are the meanest parent in the world
- 9-year-old Peter doesn’t want to go to his best friend’s birthday party
- 13-year-old Tom grunts and slams the door to his room
Adolescence is often confusing.
Teenagers are a work in progress
How do you deal with your teenagers when emotions run high?
Does this sound familiar?
Do you want to be able to:
- Tap into the parenting skills that you already have
- Feel more confident in your parenting
- Develop closer, more effective, respectful and trusting relationships
- Support your teenagers as they encounter the significant changes that life brings
- Make it clear that emotional acceptance does not mean the absence of boundaries or limit setting
- Bring about more harmony in your family
Do you want your children to be able to:
- Understand themselves and others
- Develop a strong positive sense of self
- Create strong friendships and relationships
- Be able to concentrate better in school
- Have fewer problematic behaviours
- Be more resilient
I facilitate Tuning in to Teens ™ an evidence-based parent education program developed by the University of Melbourne. Interactive and practical, it gives parents a new way of thinking about children’s development and how to use tricky moments to connect and teach.
TUNING IN TO TEENS ™ (MINDFUL: Centre for Training and Research in Developmental Health. University of Melbourne Faculty of Medicine;
Department of Psychiatry and Monash University)