Try This at Home

Wouldn't it just be so.much.easier if our teenagers just listened to us the first time and did what we asked them to do? In this episode, learn how to shift from the "language of compliance" to creating "conditions for cooperation" to have more productive communication and build a better relationship with your teenagers.

How do parents of teenagers decide when they need to step in - or step out - to help their teenagers solve problems? In this episode, I offer four questions that you can ask yourself to help you decide if you need to get involved.

Now that you're listening, are you setting aside these three things? You'll keep lines of communication open and strengthen your relationship if you do. Listen to find out more1

If your teenager has ever said, "You're not listening!" this is the episode for you. Learn three tips that will help you be a better listener, both inside and outside the home.

Does your teenager think that you're too busy for them? If so, they might be hesitant to try to connect with you. In this episode, I share three tips you can try at home to demonstrate that you are never too busy for them.

Is there a Cosmo quiz, "Are you judgmental?" If not, let's make one up to see if you are judgy and if you are, it might be one of the reasons your teenager isn't talking to you. In this episode, I encourage you to check in with your own behavior to see what you might be modeling at home.

In the final episode of season 2, I host an "AMA" where I answer four questions from my dedicated listeners. Love you all! 

It's time to see how some of these coaching strategies work in a real-life coaching conversation. Listen in to a dialogue between me and my almost 13-year old to hear how a coaching conversation can go.

Tips for using a personal story during coaching - when, how, and why. Finally you get to talk about yourself.

Role playing and rehearsal are powerful coaching strategies I use with clients and they work really well with kids. In this episode, I share some tips for how I engage kids in role play/rehearsal.

You've moved into the "coaching" phase in a problem-solving conversation. Here's one strategy you can use to keep your child thinking and the conversation going.

The final episode in Season 1 of Try This at Home has it all - three tips on asking questions to keep the conversation going with your tween/teen and the ending to the Lisa and Ollie story. 

Demonstrating empathy and validating your kid's feelings is essential to start the coaching (aka problem-solving) conversation. Listen to tips on how you can do so in this episode. Also, a teen herself joins us to help showcase the power of paraphrasing.

Tweens and teens are not known for being forthcoming with information. This episode explores three powerful P's in coaching - proximity, pausing, and paraphrasing - as ways to open up the conversation with your kid.

Are you a good listener? In general, people struggle with truly listening. In this podcast, I share three "listening set-asides" that will help you be a better listener and build trust with your kids.

Welcome to Try This at Home, where I open up my Executive Coach's playbook and share tips and techniques I use with my clients so that you can use them at home with your kids. Today's podcast is about advice - why it doesn't work and what to do instead.