Category: Connecting with your teens
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Tips for family dinner time
Family dinners are so important for connection and conversation time but tricky to plan. Tips gathered to help make dinner meal plan time simpler. I
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Confidence Building for Teens
A stack of 100 digital cards with 50 confidence-building scenarios to discuss with your teen. They’re conversation starters that actually work and can help you connect with your teen
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Simple Random Acts of Kindness for teens
Many teens prefer to remain under the radar, so I complied a short list of random acts of kindness that you can pull out at the dinner table to discuss.
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Encouraging Teens to Volunteer
Ideas from the community for providing service opportunities for our teens
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Apple Tasting Party
This apple tasting party will be a hit with your family or the local teens as they predict their favorite kind of apple and put it to the test. Perfect fall kick-off before all the pumpkin festivities!
Sibling Revelry
Sibling Rivalry is a big cause for concern amongst parents, so this 7 page FREE workbook was created to encourage sibling revelry, and open communication as a family.
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Easter Ideas for Teens
When your kids become teenagers, they just weren’t into the same things they were when they were younger. Here is a list of ideas for your teens!
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Activities for Teens
Activities for Teens are ideas for a group of teens with friends, or a family activity with teens. Fun at home when it’s a good time to stay home.
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Is TikTok Safe?
The TikTok app is another social media platform that is hot on the scene and a lot of parents want to know, is TikTok safe?
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Consider This: Phone Etiquette
Consider This: Phone Etiquette is a family activity that presents scenarios and solutions to consider through discussion.
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Love Languages for Teens
Do you know your love language? Do you know that of your spouse? Your kids? You can read through this love language for teens print and find out!
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Talking to your Teen about Sex
Talking to your Teen about Sex is no longer just once, it should be an ongoing discussion with 1,000 1 minute conversations throughout child and teen years.
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Importance of Photos
When we display pictures in our home it helps boost our kids self esteem and confidence. Today we we are talking about not just the importance of photos, but images of mom (or dad) with just one child.
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Connecting with your Teen
Connecting with your teen may be the most important thing you can do in the parenting teens journey. CONNECTION is at the heart of preserving the relationship long term, and it is the center focus of all that I hope to share when it comes to parenting teens. At the heart of all I share is my desire for all of you parents connecting with your teen.
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Teens and Eating Disorders
If you are concerned about Teens and Eating Disorders, we want to help. Listen to this podcast episode, read the transcript, or at the list print off the free resources shared below. I interviewed Laura from Remarkable Now about her 15 year eating disorder, and her insights are recorded here.
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When Your Teenager is Acting Out
This week we are talking all about teenage rebellion, which is a harsh way of saying a teenager acting out, and I have so much to say!