Engaging Adolescents - Parenting skills for resolving teenage behaviour problems.
Parenting skills for resolving teenage behaviour problems
The structure of this course provides parents with a model for working out what behaviour needs to be ignored, how to coach teenagers to consider the consequences of their actions and to hold difficult conversations when agreements are breached. A practical ‘how-to’ guide for parents.
- Understanding adolescents: a time of reconstructions, redeveloping social landscapes, brain snaps and body make-overs
- Understanding your job as parent/carer of a teenager – observer, advisor, negotiator, director
- A three-option model for decision making….a ‘drop down’ menu for parents
- Working out how NOT to respond in tricky emotional encounters
- Building your relationship with your teenager
- How to hold difficult conversations more successfully when discussing issues such as phone use, sibling conflict, disrespect, truancy, going out, school work, helping out at home…and much more.