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...
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
The usual counsel for parents of teens, especially those with neurodiversity is to motivate them with consequences and behavior modification. It’s perfectly understandable that you haven’t had the connection and results you want with your teen because neurodiverse...
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...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.