Parenting Teens

Adolescents are hardwired to explore and grow, and learning is mainly how they do this. But a shocking majority of teens are disengaged from school, simultaneously bored and overwhelmed. As parents, we can feel powerless and don’t know how to help – until now. Based on five years of research into why children lose their love of learning, award-winning journalist Jenny Anderson and the Brookings Institution’s global education expert Rebecca Winthrop have created a transformative model that every parent, carer and educator needs to know about.

Turn In-Law Anxiety into Genuine Connection—For the Sake of Your Family’s Future You raised your child with love, but now they’ve joined another family. What happens next? Will your relationship with their in-laws feel natural—or like an ongoing, silent negotiation? For many parents and grandparents, introducing new in-laws brings unspoken expectations, cultural clashes, and a quiet fear of being sidelined. Misunderstandings grow, family gatherings feel forced, and your child feels caught in the middle. But it doesn’t have to be this way. The Art of Co-Parents-In-Law Harmony ...

Between the ages of 12 and 24, the brain changes in important and often maddening ways. It’s no wonder that many parents approach their child’s adolescence with fear and trepidation. According to renowned neuropsychiatrist Daniel Siegel, however, if parents and teens can work together to form a deeper understanding of the brain science behind all the tumult, they will be able to turn conflict into connection and form a deeper understanding of one another. In Brainstorm, Siegel illuminates how brain development affects teenagers’ behaviour and relationships.

Even if you're just earning an allowance now, you can leap into a prosperous financial future—No Wall Street experience required. Are you a teenager overwhelmed by financial jargon? Or a parent eager to instill good money habits in your child but don't know where to start? Financial wisdom isn't taught in schools , leaving many young adults unequipped for the real world. Statistics show more than 74% of teenagers lack practical knowledge about managing money. As unsettling as it sounds, there's hope.

Your struggling teenager is going to a residential or wilderness treatment program. Their addictions, learning disabilities, or emotional/behavioral issues have brought you to a moment of decision. Heartsick, anxious, and exhausted, questions bounce endlessly around your mind. Will this work? Was this really necessary? Will she ever forgive me? Can we handle him at home when the time comes? Dr. Tim Thayne delivers the answers in his groundbreaking book Not by Chance.

S-ar părea că niciodată nu ești suficient de bine pregătit să devii părinte de adolescent. E foarte posibil, susține doctorul Gary Chapman, însă iată vestea bună: relația cu acești tineri „neînțeleși" se poate îmbunătăți considerabil! Trebuie doar să le descoperi și să le vorbești limbajul de iubire. Autorul își bazează argumentația atât pe statistici și studii de specialitate, cât și pe propria experiență de părinte și de consilier psihologic, pe care o redă cu empatie și, uneori, cu umor.

In this important follow-up to The Power of a Praying® Parent (2 million copies sold), Stormie addresses areas of concern you may have for your grown children and shares how to lift them up to God. With stories from other parents and insight gleaned from personal experience, Stormie helps you pray with the power of God's word over your adult children.

Being a teenager is both wonderful and challenging. In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, author Sean Covey applies the proven wisdom of the 7 Habits to teens and the tough issues and life-changing decisions they face. In an entertaining style, Cove provides a step-by-step guide to help teens improve self-image, build friendships, resist peer pressure, achieve their goals, get along with their parents, and much more.

Do you want to easily help your teenager cope with everyday conflicting problems whilst developing a calmer, more positive environment and relationship at home? Raising a teen is a tricky part of the parenting journey but the teenage years do not need to be terrifying. Multiple studies have found distracted parenting, and low levels of parental warmth and support contribute to behavioural problems, insecurity, and emotional difficulties in adolescents.

Guarding the Heart: A Devotional Journey into Purity, Integrity, and Spiritual Leadership In a world filled with challenges and temptations, Guarding the Heart offers young men the wisdom and guidance they need to live with purity, integrity, and spiritual strength. Written by John M. O’Malley, this heartfelt devotional is a collection of letters from a father to his son, designed to instill biblical values in the hearts of young men as they navigate relationships, culture, and their faith journey. With practical insights, real-world reflections, and scriptural truths, each devotion ...

Positive Self-Parenting Solutions is made for teenagers struggling and dealing with depression. It begins by emphasizing the importance of mindfulness and healing the post-traumatic stress in one's life and the numerous benefits.

The Mother & Daughter dynamic during the tween and teen years can be extremely demanding. This relationship however is extremely important to a young girls development and many moms get stuck when attempting to address issues when it comes to peer relationships, school, the mother and daughter bond, social media, puberty, dating and emotional health. I'm a Mom of a Teen Girl, Help is self help guide for moms that provides facts on this developmental stage, tips, do's, don'ts, positive affirmations and conversation starters to help with navigating this difficult but unique stage in a young ...

The percentage of adolescents who suffer from significant anxiety is currently close to one-third, and this number has been steadily rising over the past few years. The experience of living with anxiety can make a teen feel cut off from others and frightened.

The law of attraction is based on the idea that everything in the universe has a polarity, meaning that everything - from the food you eat to the people you talk to, to the things you say to the things you think - contains either a positive or a negative kind of energy. Notice that being with people who complain or rant a lot tends to make you feel bad, even though you're not exactly experiencing what they're going through - that's the law of attraction working its magic. When you focus on negative stuff, then more negative stuff will happen.

Did you know that a recent meta-analysis revealed Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) significantly reduces self-harm behaviors and improves emotional regulation in adolescents? In fact, 77% of participants in a 2020 study no longer met the criteria for borderline personality disorder after one year of DBT treatment.

Originally developed for the treatment of borderline personality disorder, dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, has rapidly become one of the most popular and most effective treatments for all mental health conditions rooted in out-of-control emotions. However, there are limited resources for psychologists seeking to use DBT skills with individual clients. In the tradition of ACT Made Simple, DBT Made Simple provides clinicians with everything they need to know to start using DBT in the therapy room.

Psychotherapist Iben Dissing Sandahl brings to life the Danish upbringing values that form the basis of raising the happiest, healthiest and most well-adjusted teenagers in the world. From finding uniqueness and freedom to efterskoles, in The Danish Way of Raising Teens, you will discover the ten core principles Danes use to raise their teens, to describe this exciting phase from child to adult.

An innovative approach that teaches parents how to reconnect with the entire family and reclaim their parenting power. The program is designed to help parents let go of the addicted family system and begin parenting with renewed strength and positive power. Krovitz-Neren's 5-Step Foundational Parenting Model is new to the addiction field and, unlike previous books, teaches parents a systematic approach to support their children in their successful long-term recovery.

In this supportive, life-saving resource, the New York Times best-selling author of The Gift of Failure helps parents and educators understand the roots of substance abuse and identify who is most at risk for addiction, and offers practical steps for prevention.

In this newly revised edition, Sean Covey helps teens figure out how to approach the six major challenges they face: gaining self-esteem, dealing with their parents, making friends, being wise about sex, coping with substances, and succeeding at school and planning a career.