A Case for FAMILY Dinners
You may not have thought about this before, but teens experience what public health folks call, “optional morbidity,” meaning that …
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Never let a good crisis go to waste!
In my line of work coaching parents, teens and young adults, not a week goes by that a client doesn’t …
Play Your Way to Better Connections
As I listen around to families, one thing seems to be common to many: most of our communication is task-oriented. …
Boy, Are Dads Important
Sometimes I think I must sound like a broken record but Dads are REALLY important in teens’ lives. I was …
Adventures of Nimby, Part 8: A Stick in the Mud? or A Wrench in the Works?
It was quite a while before Nimby was road-worthy…that is, could even be driven. But in anticipation of that long-awaited …
Looks like, sounds like, feels like. . .
I was coaching with a really great mom recently and we were talking about how she is going to help …
Teaching a chicken to play baseball?
As our boys grow up, we need to increasingly treat them as young men. Do they always get it right? …
Building the Team
I was invited for Sunday lunch to the home of a family with eight kids…the perfect “yours,” “mine” and “ours” …
never let a good crisis go to waste!
Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste In my line of work coaching parents, teens and young adults, not …
