by janetedgette | May 10, 2025 | "Typical" Teen Behavior, Counseling adolescents, Counseling teens, Doing therapy with teenagers, Family life, Parent-Teen communication, Parenting teens, Teenagers
We all want to raise kids who are confident and who will speak up for themselves, so we encourage them to have a voice. A voice is important, but so is having the discernment to know when you are effectively advocating for oneself and when you are simply using... 
by janetedgette | Aug 13, 2024 | "Typical" Teen Behavior, Coaching kids and teens, Counseling adolescents, Counseling teens, Doing therapy with teenagers, Parent-Child communication, Parent-Teen communication, Parenting, Parenting teens, Teenagers
Ever realize that adults communicate with teenagers almost exclusively through questions? It’s boring. And annoying. And then they wonder why their kids or students or therapy clients don’t want to talk with them. But what’s worse is that it’s... 
by janetedgette | Aug 13, 2024 | "Typical" Teen Behavior, Counseling adolescents, Counseling teens, Doing therapy with teenagers, Family life, Parent-Child communication, Parent-Teen communication, Parenting, Parenting teens, Teenagers
Until we re-examine our cultural narrative about adolescence that says all teens are “crazy,” “uncommunicative,” and “irresponsible,” there will continue to be a generation gap that is more apparent than real. After all, when you... 
by janetedgette | Jun 8, 2024 | "Typical" Teen Behavior, Bullying, Parent-Child communication, Parent-Teen communication, Parenting, Parenting teens, Sibling rivalry, Teen behavior
By holding our kids to a higher standard of treating one another, we can put an end to so much of the bullying and unkindness that gets passed off as “typical sibling rivalry” Over the years a lot of bad teen behavior has, unfortunately, become normalized as... by janetedgette | May 6, 2024 | "Typical" Teen Behavior, Family life, Mental health, Parent-Teen communication, Parenting, Parenting teens, Teen behavior, Teenagers
Never has the adage “I was a teenager once too, you know” been more tone deaf to the experience of being a teenager than it is today. So much has changed in the past decade-plus, in ways that have altered the DNA of how kids communicate with one another, entertain and... 
by janetedgette | Feb 12, 2024 | "Typical" Teen Behavior, Counseling adolescents, Counseling teens, Doing therapy with teenagers, Family life, Mental health, Parent-Teen communication, Parenting, Parenting teens, Teen behavior, Teenagers
Recent advances in brain research have confirmed for us that there are qualitative differences between the brain of an adolescent and that of an adult, impacting the way adolescents remember, think, reason, focus attention, make decisions, and relate. Dan Siegel,...