“You’re going to do it like that…?” Helping my teen learn life skills.

“You’re going to do it like that…?” Helping my teen learn life skills.
I want my children to thrive. You want your children to thrive. Which raises the question: What does thriving look like?
What if my kids struggle with mental health? A thought for helping with the depths (hint: move).
One step at a time is the quickest way to get to feeling happy.
When we feel crappy, it’s hard to show up (hello, crappy zone!). Enter self-care baseline. Yes, it’s THAT important.
Let’s all take a reminder for today (adults/parents and teens/kids alike): We’re not responsible for the feelings, happiness, or emotional well being of any other person — only ourselves. Say it with me if you need to. We’re not responsible…
Check out a teen’s perspective on happiness, ourselves, and other people. A tough (though useful) life lesson I’m starting to get (after years of trying to please every coach, teacher, boss, and other “authority figure,” even into adulthood, and seeing…
If we want our children to belong to themselves*, to know and feel and get that they are awesome and worthy and enough and full of potential and possibility, that they do not need to fit into the box of…
The world of our children and their experience is different than ours is/was. And that’s not good nor bad. It simply is. However, the general human underpinnings, feelings and emotions, yearnings and wanting to belong — it’s there for our…
This one is for our kids. My dear kiddos: As adults we try to teach you so much — in huge part because we are reparenting ourselves (which you will do too). Our own parents did the best they could,…