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Healing Mom Guilt
Parents are often told the first 5 years of a child’s life are the most important for brain development, psychological bonding and habit formation. When children hit adolescence, teens push away from us as parents to form their own identity and sometimes it can lead...
Business as Usual Won’t Work for ND Teens
Conscious communication is key for teens with ADHD.
How to Build Self Advocacy for Teens with ADHD
Conscious communication skills work, not because we seek compliance targeting unwanted behaviors but because it models how to self-advocate for a lifetime.
What It Takes to Impact Teens
Teens share the roadmap to impact them in research interviews.
The 12 Steps Facilitate Conscious Parenting
My work in the conscious parenting movement and in recovery finds alignment in the 12 Steps.
The #1 Thing to Cut Through Teen Defiance and Defenses
If you speak to a teen’s highest self, the highest self often shows up.
5 Tips for Holidays with Teens
5 Tips to Connect with your Teens over the Holidays
One of the Most Common Parenting Mistakes
One of the most common parenting mistakes I see as a family sociologist and parenting communication coach is talking to our kids as if they are NOT our equals!
Good Parenting Often Starts with Reparenting Ourselves
In the conscious parenting movement, many of us are reparenting ourselves as we raise our children. We identify our triggers, often leading to inner child work, we identify enmeshments and become capable of taking personal responsibility for our own thoughts, actions and feelings. We practice boundaries which in turn help our children take full responsibility for their thoughts, actions and feelings. By so doing, we break those unwritten rules by co-creating safe emotional spaces to 1) talk, 2) trust and 3) feel.
3 Reasons Why Parenting Your Teen Is Harder Today
Your authentic, intentional relationship with your teen can be the very thing that mitigates the dangerous signposts of social media, screen addiction, risky behavior and isolation. The way we communicate in our relationship with our teens can make a difference in the way they hear us and accept our love and guidance.
Laura Lyles Reagan, MS
For more than 30 years, Sociologist Laura Lyles Reagan has worked in youth development and parent education. Her approach, called co-creation, helps teens and parents grow the skills they need for positive relationships. Seen here with Dr. Shefali Tsabary, author of The Conscious Parent and Oprah’s “favorite parenting expert,” who invited her to her annual event, Evolve.
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