Seven Ways to Talk to your Teenager and then Love Them

The more I work with teenagers, the more I love them, the more I hear about parents with their teenagers the more my heart goes out to them.  It becomes clearer and clearer, the reasons why we must take a coaching approach to talking to our teens.

One of the main problems for teenagers is that they feel that no one listens to them. One of the main problems for parents of teens is that they feel that their teens don't listen to them. 

Communication is key in the parent teen relationship.  Teenagers want their parents to value them even though they are sometimes not able to show it during the teen years.

The one thing that I have learned about teenagers especially what we would describe as 'the naughty ones' is that no matter how bad it gets for them, no matter how much trouble they are in - MUM is still the word.  

 On parent as coach we teach the eight ways of:

Love; Respect; Listening; Understanding; Appreciation; Support; Resonsibility; Independence.

We know that these work with teenagers we have tested them again and again.  One of the most inspiring parts of being in self employment is knowing that you have an idea that is a winner.  After that it becomes a matter of promoting it correctly and getting it to those who need it most, in our case parents of teenagers.