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Posts in the “Parenting Skills” Category

1st September 2024
Parenting triggers and hot emotions
Triggers and taking accountability for why they happen. Learning to calm our heightened state of emotions. Hot emotions are a window into our past.

16th August 2024
When your teenager is rude and how to handle it
How to manage a teenager’s rudeness. Authoritative versus authoritarian parenting styles. The rewards for not rising to the bait.

19th April 2024
Teens and Building Confidence
Confidence and how parents can support their teen son or daughter to build self-confidence.

26th March 2024
Teen Life Skills
A look at four key life skills that parents can help their teens learn. They benefit from this period at home to get ready for independent living. There is no reason in the modern era why sons are leaving home not able to cook or carry out domestic tasks on a regular basis. It is of huge benefit to a teen with their expanded brain capacity to develop good daily habits in the present. It is easier to adopt new positive habits as a young adult leaving home compared to trying to break fossilised habits gained over a number of years.