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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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Conscious communication hears and speaks to the he Conscious communication hears and speaks to the heart; it's magic! #consciousparenting #consciouscommunication #consciousliving #parentingteens #parentingteenagers #launchingyoungadults #parentingsociology
// Action-able Tip to Improve Your Teen Relationsh // Action-able Tip to Improve Your Teen Relationship // If you are not able to speak to your tweens and teens as equals in communication, then you are preparing them to be controlled or be controlling (be a bully) in life because every relationship will be about power and control. If, however, you speak to your tween or teen as if what they have to say is just as important as what you have to say, you are laying the foundation for them to be able to stand up for themselves and treat others with respect, dignity and equality. #consciouscommunication #consciousparenting #parentingsociology #youthdevelopmentresearch #parentingteens #parentingteenagers #heart2heartparents #raiserespectfulparents
Look who came to visit while I was on my Mom’s p Look who came to visit while I was on my Mom’s porch doing the LIVE video for the Brave Parent Mini Workshop. Hop over to the Facebook Group, Brave Parents Raising Teens to hear about what to do when your teen shuts you out. Link to join the group is in the bio. #parentingteens #parentingteenagers #consciouscommunication
Conscious communication is magic! #consciousparent Conscious communication is magic! #consciousparenting #parentingteens #parentingteenagers
What are you reading? After only purchasing and re What are you reading? After only purchasing and reading Cherokee books for nearly a year, I found these treasures at Half Price Books San Antonio when I was buying books for my daughter’s birthday. They are the late great civil rights leader, John Lewis’ love letter to the future, Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation and Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives by Jane Brox. #stopthescroll #nobanning #reading #raiserespectfulparents
The HOW of reparenting ourselves while parenting a The HOW of reparenting ourselves while parenting a teen is encapsulated in breaking the 3 unwritten rules of high stress families. Listen as I share from Mision San Jose in San Antonio, Texas and be sure to download the 12 Steps to Parenting Teens for Conscious Parents in Recovery. (Let’s face it, we are likely all recovering from something.) Link for download in the bio. #parentingteens #parentingteenagers #consciousparenting #consciouscommunication #raiserespectfulparents #heart2heartparents #reparenting #parentsinrecovery #codependentnomore
Every month I ask your help in placing one of my b Every month I ask your help in placing one of my books in a Little Free Library 📚. So far, How to Raise Respectful Parents has been placed on the East Coast to the West Coast of the US and a few stops in between including my beloved Smoky Mountains ⛰️. Since I’m in a new locale, I thought Inwould place it this month at the Missions Visitor Center in San Antonio, Texas. I love the design of this Little Free Libary. Can you see the Mom and Daughter photo of the book shining through? Who will place the next one ☝️ and send back a photo or two of you doing so. (There is no expense to you. I will snail mail you a copy.) #raiserespectfulparents #littlefreelibrary #sanantoniomissions
Free Download for Conscious Parents in Recovery (R Free Download for Conscious Parents in Recovery (Reparenting) I sought to break the generational cycle of alcoholism in my family. I even got a degree in substance abuse counseling in an effort to facilitate that for myself and others, but the disease of alcoholism is cunning, baffling and powerful, if not insidious. I am also a recovering alcoholic with nearly 22 years of sobriety. Recovery freed me and my family, both my family of origin and my family with my daughters. The pioneering expert in adult children of alcoholic work, Janet Woititz, states that every practicing alcoholic home has three rules: Don't talk, don't trust and don't feel. In recovery as in the conscious parenting movement, we talk, we trust, we feel. In the conscious parenting movement, many of us are re-parenting ourselves as we raise our children. We identify our triggers, often leading to inner child work, we identify enmeshments and become capable of taking personal responsibility for our own thoughts, actions and feelings. We practice boundaries which in turn helps our children take full responsibility for their thoughts, actions and feelings. Just like traditional recovery, conscious parents break generational patterns by 1) Talking 2) Learning to Trust and 3) Feeling the Full Spectrum of our Emotions. I invite you to download the 12 Steps to Parenting Teens for Parents in Recovery. (Link in my bio.) #reparenting #parentsinrecovery #consciousparenting #consciouscommunication #parentingteens #parentingteenagers #parents #raiserespectfulparents #heart2heartparents
Last week I helped facilitate a family literacy co Last week I helped facilitate a family literacy conference called Find Your Voice with the South Texas Literacy Coalition and the Region One Education Service Center Gear Up Program. I was able to joyfully donate some of my books to the participants. You know you titled your book right when a student (high school senior of my YA target audience) grabs it and says, “My Mom and I need this!” My heart ❤️ smiled 😊 because I know, engaged teens paradoxically aching for independence and a deeper connection with the adults in their lives, can be the change agents this world 🌎 needs. #ibelieveinthisgeneration #parentingteens #launchingyoungadults #consciousparenting #consciouscommunication #raiserespectfulparents
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