Every parent wants their teenager to listen to them. Some of the ways that a parent goes about it produces the opposite affect. The three main ways are: nagging, insight and nagging.
Nagging, for a teen, is the ultimate turn off. Parents do not see it as nagging because parents have a great way to reframe [...]

In the Bucket List with Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson, they both have cancer and have about a year to live. They write a list, the Bucket List, of what they want to do/accomplish or really live before they die.
I don’t think you have to wait til you are almost dying to actually live. [...]

Words of Wisdom can be from someone else’s experiences or just our own experiences. What things come to your mind that you have learned in your life? From other peoples’ lives? What experiences have you gone through that you can help others? What can you learn from your own past experiences that can help you [...]

You fell in love with the person that makes you very happy and want to be there for you forever. You get married. Marriage is a wonderful thing but it does take work. The “work” part is keeping the marriage strong when circumstances come and shake the marriage.
Protecting a marriage may be difficult if [...]

Anxiety is normal. When you think of speaking in front of people, there’s some anxiety. When you need to take a test, there is anxiety. When we are not sure if a person will like us, there is anxiety. Anxiety can become overwhelming, when the anxiety is more in control of you than you in [...]

Marriage is a partnership. Two people came together, bringing all different sorts of wonderful and unique aspects into the marriage.
Each individual has their traits, personalities, frustration and limitations that are brought to the marriage. Combining the differences from the wife and husband can create a great marriage or a really difficult one.
Marriage is [...]

I was watching Dr. Phil who is beginning his next Parent Boot Camp (teens/kids too) and it was interesting to listen to the parents and hear how they talk about their kids.
The parents were not happy with their teen, did not particularly like them, very angry and frustrated with them, wanted to stop being [...]

If you have watched Dr. Phil, there was a show about texting. This also has been on the news.
Sexting is sending nude or partial nude pictures through text on phones. Texts can include sexual explicit information, not just pictures.
A statistic that I heard from www.freedombeginshere.org said that 39% of teens between 13-16 years [...]

Change can be very hard to do. Complacency and staying the same is so much easier to do.
When we do things, out of habit, it does not cause the body to be out of balance. The body and mind can do things without even thinking about it. For example: tying our shoes, brushing our [...]

Teenagers and the Brain!!
From the book, Evolve Your Brain by Joe Dispenza writes this about the frontal lobe and teenagers:
One of the reasons teenagers are so impulsive is that the frontal lobe takes time to develop fully. In an article published by Nature magazine in 1999, researcher Jay Giedd and his associates from the [...]