A Parents’ Guide to hear and be heard By Vanessa Baker You want to connect to your teenager. You try and you try. You try to teach them, guide them, correct them. You think they will eventually (but soon, hopefully soon) say, “Gee, Mom and Dad, Thanks for...
By Tanni Haas, Ph.D. The summer break is long, and it can feel even longer if you do not have any activities planned for your teens. What do you do? Should you send them to day or sleepaway camp, an academic enrichment program, or just let them hang out...
By Vanessa Baker The answer to understanding all the questions parents have about teenagers in love is simple. You can’t. No one can. I mean has anyone even sorted out the precise difference between ‘like’ and ‘LIKE-like’ yet? To be able to conceptually grasp...
By Sandi Schwartz One of the biggest challenges parents currently face is how to manage our children’s access to technology. When they are young, we worry about them spending too much time staring at screens and not getting outside to play. As they get older,...
By Vanessa Baker Staying connected with teens as they experience puberty and work toward becoming independent individuals (which is the goal!) can be extremely challenging. As a teen-parenting relationship coach, it’s literally my job to guide families through...