Spring Cleaning and Benevolent Parental Authority

Spring Cleaning and Benevolent Parental Authority

When we were a more primitive society, a hunting and gathering society, kids and teens participated with the adults in various community activities and that way learned adult functions. In our more “advanced” society today, kids and teens do activities very separately from the adults. The result is that kids and teens end up not […]

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Teach your teen impulse control part 2

Teach Your Teen Impulse Control – Part 2

The Healthy Family Connections Podcast Episode 266 · Duration: 00:09:01 In this episode, Neil follows last week’s podcast where he responds to parents struggling with their young teenager’s lack of impulse control. In this episode, Neil offers a second way to help their teenager improve and he demonstrates how to go about it. Last week we […]

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teen lack of impuse control

Teach Your Teen Impulse Control – Part 1

The Healthy Family Connections Podcast Episode 265 · Duration: 00:12:57 Do you struggle with your teenager’s lack of impulse control? These parents do and we’ll take a deep dive into how to help these parents help their son to improve. We’ll follow this podcast up with at least one more because this is an area so […]

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Parenting teenagers podcast Earned Privileges and Consequencess

Getting Earned Privileges Right

The Healthy Family Connections Podcast Episode 264 · Duration: 00:11:38 Do you find yourself in a cycle of giving and taking away privileges to get your teenager to simply do their work? These parents do and Neil helps them understand how to use the shift from giving kids Consequences to giving them Earned Privileges, why it […]

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