Do you
-set high expectations or lower the bar?
-step in and fix it, or let it play out?
-rock the boat or choose peace and quiet?
-accept silence or learn to hear and be heard?
-do for everyone else, or find time to pursue your dreams?

Parenting a teenager can be confusing, frustrating and draining. But it doesn’t have to be this way, and you don’t have to do it alone.

As coach, parent and middle school teacher, I understand and have lived the concerns of parents as they see their teen slipping away. We had to reach out for help with our oldest, fearing for his safety and the well-being of our family. Help came from Hyde School, a program of family-based character education. Our two years at Hyde were transformational, and inspired me to become a life/parenting coach. I continue to volunteer as a facilitator of family weekends at the Woodstock, CT campus.

My life work is to help parents create a principle-centered life and develop crucial listening and communication skills. Why? We want to be the trusted adult in our child’s life. And these are the qualities which, if we model them for our children, will help them become compassionate, independent, confident, loving adults.

My practice is based on “The Ten Priorities of Effective Parenting” (Hyde School), and the communication skills program, “How to Talk So Teens Will Listen” (Faber/Mazlish). These programs have helped thousands of families to re-establish respectful, loving and responsible relationships.

Parents will learn powerful principles and skills to take the confusion out of decision-making, improve listening and communication , and bring out the goodness and potential they know are hidden inside their teen. They will also work on rediscovering the person they are when they are not being a parent.

Coaching

• Individual (in person/by phone)
• Group coaching (in person/by phone)

Workshops

• How to Talk So Teens Will Listen
• The Biggest Job/Parenting from Principles
• Take Back Your Energy