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A mom in my community emailed me last week. Her 14-year-old had been on social media for three hours straight. She asked her, gently at first, to wrap it up. By the third ask, her daughter was yelling, and my client was standing in the kitchen wondering how a phone had become the center of …
Mother-Daughter Retreats: The One Thing Most Moms Haven’t Tried “We’ve tried everything, except a mother-daughter retreat with my teen.” I hear that a lot. Usually from a mom who has already done the hard work. She’s been to therapy with her daughter; read the books; had the late-night talks that go nowhere and the silent …
ADHD in Teenage Girls: What It Really Looks Like Picture the ADHD kid everyone imagines. He’s bouncing in his chair. He can’t sit still. His teacher catches him staring out the window for the third time before lunch. Now picture your daughter. She turns in her homework, most of the time, three days late and …
How to Help Your Teen Quit Vaping You found it in her backpack. Or maybe it was the smell — something sweet and synthetic, drifting out from under a closed door. Either way, your stomach dropped, and your mind started running through every worst-case scenario you’ve ever read about. If that’s you right now, I …
How to Talk to Your Teenager So They Open Up “She used to tell me everything. Now I get one-word answers and a closed door or complete disrespect.” I hear some version of that sentence almost every week. And every time, the parent asks me the same question: how do I get her to talk …
My Daughter Changed Overnight: What Now? “My daughter changed overnight.” If I had a dollar for every time I heard those words from a mother, I’d probably be retired by now. One day your daughter is affectionate. She wants to spend time with you and tells you everything. Then suddenly she’s spending hours in her …
Teen anxiety, depression, emotional dysregulation, and suicide rates have reached alarming levels. Parents everywhere are asking the same question: “What is happening to our kids?” Today’s tweens and teens are growing up in a world filled with stress, uncertainty, comparison, social pressure, and emotional overload. Between social media, school pressure, family stress, isolation, world events, …
Mother-Daughter Retreats: Can They Improve Communication and Strengthen Your Relationship? Mother-daughter relationships are powerful, emotional, loving, and sometimes incredibly challenging. Even the closest mothers and daughters can struggle with communication, emotional triggers, misunderstandings, and hurt feelings. During the tween and teen years especially, many moms feel confused about why communication suddenly feels strained or emotionally …
Why Are Girls So Mean to Each Other? Many parents ask the same painful question: “Why are girls so mean to each other?” One day your daughter has a close group of friends. The next day she is being ignored, excluded, whispered about, or publicly embarrassed online. For many tween and teen girls, emotional bullying …
Why Are We So Afraid of Pain? Physical and Emotional Pain Explained A few days ago, I woke up with a sharp crick in my neck that brought up my old fear of pain. The pain was so intense it brought tears to my eyes. Every tiny movement sent shooting sensations through my head and …
