The structure of this course provides parents with a model for working out what behaviour needs to be ignored, how to coach teenagers to consider the consequences of their actions and to hold difficult conversations when agreements are breached. A practical ‘how-to’ guide for parents.

• Understanding adolescents: a time of reconstructions, redeveloping social landscapes, brain snaps and body make-overs
• Understanding your job as parent/carer of a teenager – observer, advisor, negotiator, director
• A three-option model for decision making….a ‘drop down’ menu for parents
• Working out how NOT to respond in tricky emotional encounters
• Building your relationship with your teenager
• How to hold difficult conversations more successfully when discussing issues such as phone use, sibling conflict, disrespect, truancy, going out, school work, helping out at home…and much more.

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Get a group together and book a course at your venue or ours. A very popular choice with playgroups, schools, families, community organisations…. they can be tailored to age groups and range from 6-40 participants.