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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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  • How to Help Your Teen Finish the Pandemic School Year Strong
  • Conscious Parenting is NOT Permissive Parenting
  • How Recovery Principles Pave the Way to Conscious Parenting

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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.
I'm still on a high! This week I launched a new gr I'm still on a high! This week I launched a new group coaching experience, the 2022 version of Enjoy Your Teen Again! And Thursday night's standing group Enjoy Your Teen 2.0 reached a new level. The 2.0 group does a deeper dive into conscious parenting and parenting sociology. Tonight, we set our heart's intentions for a new year in creative self-discovery, love, mutual support, growth and parenting. This group of awesome, powerful women has been together over a year so there is an ease to relating with a very natural vulnerability. We've laughed and cried with each other and seen each other through teen drama. We've even supported each other's way through triggers and past trauma. I am so blessed to know these amazing women. One member, Harriet S, may have said it best. "Group tonight felt like a pin ball machine game - hitting all the right spots, one after the other, lighting up parts of my soul, then my heart, then my mind." You can still join the 2022 Enjoy Your Teen Again Group till Tuesday. Reach out soon. #parentingtweensandteens #raiserespectfulparents #heart2heartparents #enjoyyourteenagain #consciousparenting #consciouscommunication #consciouscommunicationwithteens
// Boundaries with Teens // Teens are hard wired // Boundaries with Teens // Teens are hard wired neurologically to define away from us which is why setting arbitrary rules only calls forth their rebellion. But when we prioritize connection and skills building, we get a different result. We get co-created solutions. For more about ways conscious parents hold boundaries without rebellion while preserving connection, you can join the Enjoy Your Teen Group Coaching Experience. Message me this week because enrollment closes Tuesday. I'm offering the worksheet on boundaries with teens, from my course, Turn Your Teen Around for FREE. Message me or type "boundaries" here and I will send it by private message. #boundarieswithteens #raiserespectfulparents #heart2heartparents #parentingsociology #consciouscommunication #consciousparenting #parentingtweensandteens
Snow day! This is outside my apartment in Cherokee Snow day! This is outside my apartment in Cherokee, NC; 8 inches today. More expected tonight.
Want to talk so your teen listens? And want to lis Want to talk so your teen listens? And want to listen in such a way that your teen opens up? I can share how in our 2022 Enjoy Your Teen Again Group Coaching Experience. For 8 weeks you will learn the conscious communication skill and apply them to real world scenarios with likeminded parents. And the whole experience is priced like it's 2020. It all starts Tuesday, January 18th 7pm CST/ 8pm EST. Message me for details and to register. #enjoyyourteenagain #raiserespectfulparents #heart2heartparents #consciousparenting #consciouscommunication #consciouscommunicationwithteens #parentingtweensandteens
I was asked this weekend to sum up what works when I was asked this weekend to sum up what works when parenting today's generation given all the technological changes and political upheaval. This is what I said. Share your thoughts. "Kids at any age want and need our time and positive attention, but never more so than times of social change. So, foster communication skills with real conversations, teach empathy by assuming the role of the other and get back to nature as often as you can together. These actions tend to ground kids." Laura Lyles Reagan, Youth Development Researcher & Parent and Teen Communication Coach #conciouscommunication #communicationskillswithteens #parentingtweensandteens #raiserespectfulparents #heart2heartparents #parentingsociology #consciousparenting #consciousparentingtools
Getting “real” and sharing our true feelings a Getting “real” and sharing our true feelings about stress, more precautions and the virus variant precautions may help them open up to you about what they are feeling. For more pandemic help with teens visit the link in the bio. #quaranteen #empoweredteenlearners #raiserespectfulparents #parentingsociology #heart2heartparents
// Exploring Our Triggers// Parents in my Facebook // Exploring Our Triggers// Parents in my Facebook group, Brave Parents RaisingTeens share that they “take a break” and create save for themselves when they are triggered by their teen’s dysregulation. That way they can think about their response rather than react. The space is also sometimes helpful for our teens. What a wonderful opportunity to remind ourselves and our teens that it’s okay to be human. Our teens need our imperfections so that they know how to embrace their own humanity. But sometimes we have to go deeper and explore what is exactly triggering us so that we show up fully present for ourselves and them. We deserve the freedom from old messaging and healing from past traumas. Sometimes we are triggered by our teen not listening because we weren’t heard as children. Or sometimes we don’t set a boundary and say no because we are seeking approval for family of origin wounds through our teens. This deeper exploration includes cultural messaging too. I’m inviting us to explore this together in a new way in 2022. I’m introducing a new coaching program called Journey to Freedom where you can do this deeper work to heal old wounds and show up freely for yourself and your tweens and teens with coaching support. This work requires a witness and mentor to examine the codependent tendencies that can taint relationships. My own freedom came when I broke and lived against the old unwritten rules of childhood in an alcoholic home - don’t talk, don’t trust and don’t feel, but it took a lot of support. Today, I feel my feelings and share them in the moment. They bring richness to my life. This kind of "presence" has spilled over to healing in my relationships with my daughters. We truly enjoy each other! I’m really looking forward to sharing the pathway with you. Check out the link in the bio to schedule a call or private message me to get the details. #toolsforalifetime #journeytofreedom #recoveringparents #breakthecycle #freedomfromcodependency #heart2heartparents #codependenceinparentjng #raiserespectfulparents #parentingsociology #consciousparenting #consciouscommunication
I present to you the bassethound who stole Christm I present to you the bassethound who stole Christmas. I stepped out to grab take out and returned to find this! He gets very anxious with fireworks. Scroll through to see what he did. Happy New Year y’all! #goodriddance2021
//The Teen Mental Health Advisory: A Parenting Soc //The Teen Mental Health Advisory: A Parenting Sociology Perspective// Earlier in the month the Surgeon General issued a Health Advisory about Child and Adolescent Mental Health. I'm so grateful he turned a spotlight on the terrifying reality of rising mental health issues among children and teens. Providing more resources in schools is helpful but it is NOT THE sole answer. Social research demonstrates that quality relationships with a network of support is what makes a difference between life and death. When humankind moved from community living to nuclear families, we lost a lot of support and our teens no longer had a rite of passage into adulthood. When teens find themselves navigating the social forces without social support, the result is depression, anxiety and even suicide ensue. I practice parenting sociology. Not only does it provide a counterbalance to the traditional focus of insight and resiliency building that the psychological approach attempts to build in the individual, but parenting sociology transforms the primary systems teens find themselves in, their families. We can co-create loving, respectful positive family sub-cultures through conscious communication skills. On a daily basis, we can reflect back our teen's agency and beauty. Engaged and empowered teens attract positive relationships. That doesn't mean that individual teens don't require therapeutic interventions sometimes. It just means that our whole family units require support and one of the best ways I’ve found to support families is through parent and teen communication coaching. Today, psychologists refer to me for parenting sociology because they understand that the relationships within the family must change as the teen makes changes. It all works together. If you want to birth a new family dynamic in 2022, I invite you to hop on a call with me and let's map a plan for how to put all the pieces in place for a positive, successful year with your teen. (Link in the bio.) Happy, Healthy New Year to You and Yours! #raiserespectfulparents #parentingsociology #heart2heartparents #consciouscommunicationwithteens #consciouscommunication #consciousparenting
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