Surviving the Teen Years
Instead of Dread, Create Resilience & Connection with Your Adolescent
If you’re like a lot of parents you might look at your child with some dread as they enter the tween and teen years.
You worry that your child won’t get good grades, won’t get into a good school, and won’t be able to a decent job and support themself.
You worry about what would happen if your teen rebels? Hangs out with the “wrong crowd”? Smokes, drinks, does drugs? Gets into unhealthy relationships, gets pressured? Violent video games and social media also create worry for parents.
Some parents respond to the tween and teen years by hovering and overprotecting. But it turns out that “helicopter parenting” is problematic in it’s own way.
But what if there was another way? What if these cultural messages about teenhood being a time of rebellion and “raging hormones” are not the whole story?
We asked a few of the top parenting experts what the research says about the teen years–the purpose of this exciting stage of life, and how to maximize your connection with your teen to keep them safe while also still allowing for a teen’s autonomy.
These experts bust the myths of adolescence and share the joy and potential of this developmental stage.
If you’re like a lot of parents you might look at your child with some dread as they enter the tween and teen years.
You worry that your child won’t get good grades, won’t get into a good school, and won’t be able to a decent job and support themself.
You worry about what would happen if your teen rebels? Hangs out with the “wrong crowd”? Smokes, drinks, does drugs? Gets into unhealthy relationships, gets pressured? Violent video games and social media also create worry for parents.
Some parents respond to the tween and teen years by hovering and overprotecting. But it turns out that “helicopter parenting” is problematic in it’s own way.
But what if there was another way? What if these cultural messages about teenhood being a time of rebellion and “raging hormones” are not the whole story?
We asked a few of the top parenting experts what the research says about the teen years–the purpose of this exciting stage of life, and how to maximize your connection with your teen to keep them safe while also still allowing for a teen’s autonomy.
These experts bust the myths of adolescence and share the joy and potential of this developmental stage.
Non-judgemental, Warmth and Encouragement
That Even Insightful Parents Need
Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, Author of Brainstorm and many others, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine
- Discover why parents don’t have to fearfully anticipate their child’s teen years or just try to survive them, despite what our culture says
- Hear what the research actually says about the adolescent mind
- Understand why adolescence is the stage in life with the most power for courage and creativity, and how to encourage this in your teen
- Bust the myths of the teen brain and discover why it’s such an exciting stage of human development
Dr. John Duffy
Clinical Psychologist, Parenting and Relationship Expert, Author of The Available Parent and Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety
- Understand the importance of teens having an “open dialogue” with their parents
- Better understand the complex world that our adolescent children live in
- How to increase the emotional bank account with your teen
- Strategies to dialogue with a reluctant teen
New York Times bestselling author of How to Raise an Adult, one of the top TED Speakers of 2016, former Stanford Dean
- Why parents shouldn’t be over-involved in their child’s life
- How to find the balance between healthy involvement and protection
- The devastating effects of helicopter parenting–on teens and parents
- Parenting strategies for teens balance safety and risk taking
Sociologist, Author of The New Adolescence, The Sweet Spot and Raising Happiness, Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center
- Why adolescents and teens in industrialized countries are not doing as well and are less resilient
- How you can help your kids cope with everyday discomforts
- Science-based tools for how can you soothe your teens and soothe yourself
- Personal stories about where and how we’ve compromised with our teens
Clinical Neuropsychologist, Co-Author of The The Self Driven Child and What Do You Say?
Co-Author of The The Self Driven Child and What Do You Say?, Founder of PrepMatters
The Self-Driven Child
- Why parents have gotten the “narrow road to success” concept all wrong
- Why being a non-anxious presence is one of the most important things a parent can do
- How giving teens more control can help them feel less anxious
- How to trust that your kids have the drive to succeed and that they will find their way in the world
Author of nine books including Queen Bees and Wannabes, Co-founder of Cultures of Dignity
- How to help a child navigate the complexities of friendships and intimate relationships
- Understand what it means to be a girl or a boy in our current culture, with an honest glimpse at teens’ current emotional and social struggles
- Why and how to give teens the privacy they need, in a technological world that has no privacy
- How parents can truly listen to their kids and respond from a place of wholeness (rather than fear)
BONUS
Dr. John Duffy
Clinical Psychologist, Parenting and Relationship Expert, Author of The Available Parent and Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety
- Why parents can be optimistic about their child’s tween and teen years
- How to be available–not overinvolved, micromanaging, or over helping
- How to develop your relationship with your kids and encourage their competence, resilience, and self worth
- Why parents don’t actually need to lecture their teens (this part is funny)
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For This Short Course, We Brought Together Some of the Top Experts in the Field
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, Author or Co-Author of several books including Parenting from the Inside Out, the Whole Brain Child, No Drama Discipline, The Yes Brain, and Aware
Dr. John Duffy
Highly sought-after Clinical Psychologist, Best-selling Author of The Available Parent and Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety, Host of the popular Undue Anxiety podcast, regular Parenting and Relationship Expert on Steve Harvey, WGN radio in Chicago and the Morning Blend on NBC TV
New York Times bestselling author of the anti-helicopter parenting manifesto How to Raise an Adult, one of the top TED Speakers of 2016, regular contributor with CBS This Morning on Parenting, Author of three books, a Mother, former Stanford Dean, and Corporate Lawyer
Author of nine books including multiple New York Times Best Sellers: Queen Bees and Wannabes—the groundbreaking book that was the basis for the movie Mean Girls– Masterminds & Wingmen, and the New Rules of Boy World, Co-founder of Cultures of Dignity
Clinical Neuropsychologist, faculty member at Children’s National and the George Washington University School of Medicine, Co-Author of The The Self-Driven Child and What Do You Say?, Speaker on the adolescent brain and motivation
Ned Johnson
Co-Author of The The Self-Driven Child and What Do You Say?, Founder of PrepMatters, sought after Speaker and Teen Coach for study skills, parent-teen dynamics, and anxiety management, featured on NPR, the U.S. News and World Report, Time, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal
Sociologist, Author of The New Adolescence, The Sweet Spot and Raising Happiness, Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, former Senior Fellow at Dartmouth College, appeared on Oprah Winfrey Show, the TODAY show, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, featured in the The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Real Simple
Course creators:
Cecilia and Jason Hilkey
Cecilia and Jason are the founders of Happily Family whose mission is to connect parents of challenging kids to the understanding support, research-based tools, and expert guidance they need the most. They believe that parenting is one of the most rewarding, challenging, and transformative opportunities we have as humans. They’ve conducted over 250 interviews of parenting and education experts, authors, therapists, and researchers. They’ve presented at conferences, schools and businesses in the US and abroad. Since 2012, their online programs and events have reached more than 500,000 parents and professionals in over 200 countries. They are both Early Childhood Educators–Cecilia Hilkey, MA is a pediatric Occupational Therapist and Jason Hilkey has a degree in Math and Computer Science. They are the proud parents of two wonderful young adults.
- Full-length videos with closed captioning so you can watch at your convenience, on any device
- Audio recordings you can download and listen to at home, in the car, at the gym or wherever you like
- Option: Professionally-formatted transcripts of the sessions, to make review and action simple
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