How is it for you?

Is your older child:

• oppositional
• constantly on screens
• withdrawn / hard-to-reach
• showing signs of anxiety but not confiding as to why
• not cooperative
• refusing to engage in family activities

Do you want to find ways to bring your older child back into the fold? To be able to have meaningful conversations with them and spend quality time together?

Would you love to feel like you are winning at this rather than defeated, despondent, exhausted, burned-out? Believe you are a good parent again? Know you’ve got this rather than being drained by a nagging worry you’re badly letting them down.

Maybe you’re actually worried about your child

Are they doing scary things that you don’t feel like you have influence over (eating disorders, in with the wrong crowd, bullying, self-harm, toxic social media use)?

They might be lying or stealing or crucified with body shame - while you feel helpless to intervene…

Or there’s just a heavy sense that not meeting their potential, disengaging academically or with other interests?

Tweens Parents tell me they are faced with back-talking, entitled, rude, lippy, demanding kids. They’re often seriously worried that their little darling is going to turn out to be a Really Terrible Human!

Teens Parents tell me they are faced with a more complex picture: kids demanding autonomy but not wanting to take responsibility for anything; being totally avoidant until they want something; thinking you don’t understand anything. 

Our 2024 in person course has finished, but you can sign up at the top of the page to register your interest for our next online course - date tbc.

You are also very welcome to book in a free Discovery Call to tell me about your particular situation and I'll signpost you to what's most likely to resolve it. I can also advise on any courses I have in the pipeline and discuss 1-1 support with you.

What you'll get from this

• Use less of your energy to be MORE effective, which means your kids think you’re awesome and you feel pleased with your parenting
• Learn how to de-escalate an explosive teen (or make an anxious one more confident)
• Get really clear on when (and how) to set limits and when to let things go
• Understand what your kid is communicating through their behaviour so that you can respond to the underlying need… and as you’ll see - this changes everything!
• Recover your kid from screen addiction, social anxiety, self-harm and suicide, parental alienation, risk-taking behaviours: drugs, sex, vandalism, getting in with the wrong crowd etc.
• Respond gracefully to challenging/taboo topics when they arise with your teen
• Gain more cooperation with homework, chores and joining in with family activities
• Build resilience so that they can handle hostile school environments, frenemies and online culture and begin to challenge themselves academically, physically, socially or creatively.