Parent Estrangement is Preventable!
Have you heard of young adults going “no contact” with their parents after they are financially independent? It’s been all over my social media feeds. Grieving parents. Sad. It’s called parent estrangement and here’s my take. I’ve been...
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...
How to Build Self Advocacy for Teens with ADHD
There we were in yet another Admission, Review and Diagnostic (ARD) meeting where I felt fatigued by the protocol and unheard about how amazing my daughter was to be as successful as she was in a traditional classroom, while feeling inadequate to explain how the...
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...
The #1 Thing to Cut Through Teen Defiance and Defenses
Happy New Year! You’ve signed up for the parenting guru’s newsletters. You’ve listened to the parenting podcast. Of course, more conscious, relational parenting is the approach that works best for today’s teens. You agree. But how does it translate to your family on...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.