Collaborative Problem Solving with Teens
Sometimes teens feel parents are too “demanding” on their free time. Conversely parents may push teens to be more “responsible.” Then comes the back-to-school preparations and the summer of impactful connection and conversation with teachable moments seems to slip...
3 Red Flags to Teens and 4 Ways to Co-create Solutions WITH Them
The main reason your teen doesn’t listen to you, seemingly isolates away with their phone in their room and refuses to engage in family activities is, they feel controlled, disrespected and unheard! It doesn’t mean you haven’t tried to listen, it means...
Parenting Teens Requires Bravery
It takes bravery to breakthrough to a teen who is lost in their phone. It takes bravery to navigate the threat of active shooters in schools. It takes bravery to build a career while building a family. Yes, it takes a certain bravery to raise tweens and teens these...
The One Mindset Shift You Need to Parent Successfully
Co-creation in conscious parenting is the highest form of respect. . Co-creation goes beyond the non-coercive parenting approach because power is no longer the basis of relating. Power sharing can’t be the basis of relationship because parents will always have...
What It Takes to Impact Teens
The research is in! I’ve been academically published in the Journal of Applied Social Science for social youth development research about what teens tell us impacts them about the adults in their lives. If you do these things as a parent, you can deepen your...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.