SIX WEEK SCHEDULE
Week One: Introduction
- Focusing on strengths
- How the Identity Stage guides the teenager years
- Understanding why teenagers act the way they do
- The job of an adolescent: Dependence vs. Individuation
Week Two: Communicating Effectively
- How to listen so your teenager will talk to you
- One very simple, powerful listening technique
- Listening without judging
- Communicating limits and rules clearly
Week Three: Discipline That Works with Teenagers
- Punishment vs. Discipline
- Whose problem is it? Choose your battles!
- The parenting style that works with teenagers
- Empowering your teenager to make the right choices
Week Four: Inside the Teenage Brain
- Brain development: it explains almost everything!
- Adolescent sleep patterns
- Which part of the brain isn’t done yet
- How teenagers see adults
Week Five: Setting Limits
- Setting fair limits and following through with them!
- Using Problem Solving with teenagers
- Natural Consequences and other Fair, Firm and Friendly techniques
- Family Meetings
Week Six: Building Trust and Respect
- Communicating respect, expecting respect
- Building Self Esteem
- Creating respectful boundaries.
- Communicating your values.
