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What’s Behind Your Teen’s Behavior?

What’s Behind Your Teen’s Behavior?

Communicating with Teens, Connection Through Teen Anxiety, Conscious Communication, teen behavior

I recently had a coaching session with a mom named Chris (names have been changed), who was feeling tremendous anxiety because her daughter had not completed her college applications and the deadlines were looming. Chris was absolutely convinced that there must be...

Laura Lyles Reagan, MS

Dr. Shefali Tsabary and Laura Lyles Reagan at Evolve

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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Laura Lyles Reagan holds a Masters of Science in Sociology. She's spent over 30 years working as a passionate community advocate, specializing in child and youth advocacy, mentoring, youth development, academic success models, parenting, and family poverty issues. She's a professional parenting coach, writer, and speaker.

 

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Parent&Teen Coach, Author, Sociologist, helping parents&teens make respectful communication breakthroughs. Get the No Conflict Conversation Checklist.
/Mitigating Social Media Messaging with Conscious /Mitigating Social Media Messaging with Conscious Communication/ Internal research from Facebook/Instagram recently reported by the Wall Street Journal and splashed over major media revealed the following. • “Thirty-two percent of teen girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse” • “Comparisons on Instagram can change how young women view and describe themselves” • “Comparisons on Instagram can change how young women view and describe themselves.” • Among teens who reported suicidal thoughts, 13% of British users and 6% of American users traced the desire to kill themselves to Instagram Are we victims to the amplification of toxic cultural messaging to our teens by social media? I say a resounding absolutely not!! We are empowered co-creators of culture and our voice and stated beliefs with our calm centered energy signatures can mitigate toxic messaging. While we can set boundaries about exposure to social media, it is unlikely that an all or nothing approach prepares teens for a future with social media as older teens and young adults. Therefore, I believe we can model and teach social media moderation and counteract toxic messaging by helping teens think critically about what they are seeing and perceiving. Conscious communication skills help us do this without preaching. • We can ask Open Ended Questions about social media messaging and introduce critical thinking. Example: Do you think the model in the Instagram ad looks like that in real life or is the photo airbrushed? • And we can use I-Statements about our own beliefs. Believe it or not our teens need our voice. Example: I'm really concerned about the materialism on Instagram, it seems like every other ad is about something a teen "should" buy. I think spiritual values are much more important than the next cool thing. Please share how you are mitigating toxic messaging from social media. #parentingsociology #socialmedia #consciouscommunicationskills #raiserespectfulparents #heart2heartparents #parentingtweensandteens
This black swallowtail blessed my family’s Louis This black swallowtail blessed my family’s Louisiana home as my Stepdad is recovering from surgery and my Mom is dealing with the realities of palliative care. It’s still a beautiful day…
What’s your answer? Parenting is… What’s your answer? Parenting is…
“Hello and Goodbye is the Story of Love” JBJ. “Hello and Goodbye is the Story of Love” JBJ. It has been Parent Self Compassion Week in our FB Group - Brave Parents Raising Teens To me, parenting seems to be the process of building a strong bond and then letting go of it. That can be heart-wrenching stuff. As a sociologist, studying multiple cultures, I know there are a variety of ways to bond and let go and there is no one RIGHT way. Let's give ourselves a little grace to embrace our own way and build the compassion family sub-cultures we deserve. How do you show compassion for yourself? #parentingsociology #backontrack #braveparents #raiserespectfulparents #heart2heartparents #consciouscommunication #consciousparents #parentingtweensandteens #launchingyoungadults
While visiting my aging parents together, I got to While visiting my aging parents together, I got to take a little outdoor shopping trip on the Louisiana Boardwalk with my eldest daughter, Charlotte Hope on the banks of the Red River, Bossier City/ Shreveport Louisiana. There was a time when I wasn’t sure my amazing daughter would forgive my unconsciousness. Almost 20 years later, this trip is a marker of the living amends I am privileged to make one day at a time as we break generational patterns of being incongruent. It’s not perfect. It’s human. It’s real as we risk trusting each other with our feelings. Learning and sharing conscious communication skills facilitated our connection and continues to help me honor her journey. Now her beautiful smile reveals a willing loving resilient heart as she battles her own illness, stage IV endometriosis #livingamends #endendo4hope #gofundme #gratefulthankfulblessed #louisianaboardwalk #consciouscommunication #consciouscommunicationskills #consciouscommunicationcoach #consciousparents #launchingyoungadults #parentingtweensandteens #raiserespectfulparents #heart2heartparents #parentingsociology
Parent Coaching is... According to Laura Lyles Re Parent Coaching is... According to Laura Lyles Reagan: "When parents and teens come to me, the teen has either shut down or overtly shuts out the parent, often through apathy or rebellion. The parent is angry because their teen is shutting them out and isn't compliant while they harbor a fear underneath the anger that their teen won't be able to navigate the world and become responsible and independent. And underneath that fear is a deeper one - the teen will launch as a young adult and not engage with them or talk to them about their lives. This creates a stalemate where neither parents nor teens feel respected. That's why I try to work with parents and teens together in session. I invite parents and teens to drop their defenses and share from the heart. Together we co-create a safe space of acceptance. We start exactly where they are with the conflict they had the very week they start working with me. I teach them how to use the conscious communication skills that few us learned as children and we use those skills to work through the issue. By making the communication the focus and not who was right and who was wrong, teens don't feel like the identified patient and parents begin to understand how to meaningfully relate past the impasse. Both parents and teens say they feel heard. Sometimes, they feel heard for the first time. This process becomes a road map to use the communication skills to co-create solutions together as co-equals. Parents surrender authoritarianism, learning how to walk beside their teens as a loving resource and guide while teens are empowered to become more responsible for themselves and their future. Dr. Shefali (Oprah's parenting guru) calls my work of a new relationship dynamic, conscientious co-creation. I just know it works! Parents and teens leave with a road map for co-creating a relationship that lasts while launching teens towards a positive future." #parentcoaching #conscientiouscocreation #consciousparenting #parentingtweensandteens #parentingteens #raiserespectfulparents #parentingsociology #heart2heartparents
Trek through Texas to see the parents in Louisiana Trek through Texas to see the parents in Louisiana. Love the timeless Texas oak! My soul is soothed to know the trees will outlast us. (In loving memory of ❤️ Suzanne and FJC.)
When our tweens and teens become apathetic or rebe When our tweens and teens become apathetic or rebellious it's usually because we, as parents are stuck in old models of authoritarianism, trying to exert control of them based on our fears. Parent overwhelm occurs when we attempt to control our teens rather than honor and support their journey to become themselves. With support, we can make shifts in the way we relate to ourselves and our teens. #parentoverwhelm #SurrenderToWin #heart2heartparents #parentingsociology #raiserespectfulparents #consciousparenting #consciouscommunicationskills #consciouscommunication
Let's heal parent overwhelm together! Laura is of Let's heal parent overwhelm together! Laura is offering a new parent coaching group experienced called Peaceful Parents Peaceful Teens Type "Group" and you will get a private message with info. It is... • Time-limited (just 6 weeks) on Tuesday evenings and • Crazy affordable. Laura facilitates the group in a judgement free, nurturing experience that calls forth the power of the group to heal parent overwhelm and clear the pathway to help teens stay on track by tuning into ourselves. And conscious communication skills are reviewed using real life examples from our own homes. Parents tell Laura, it's transformative. This is what I hear... "My teen is opening up to me now." "The tension in our house has eased." "Not only is it peaceful at home, my teen is calmer.” #parentingteens #parentoverwhelm #raiserespectfulparents #heart2heartparents
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