What If Your Teen Isn't the Problem? A Guide to Conscious Parenting (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798218667917)

What if Your Teen Isn't the Problem? A Guide to Conscious Parenting is the simplest road map to learning how to manage your fears and reactions around your teen's behaviors so they stay open to you and you can be the one guiding them. If parents have the energy of fear present when parenting, those emotions will affect the parent teen interaction in a negative manner. As parents our main goal is to raise our teens so become independent, self-assured, thriving young adult making good decisions.

When addressing typical issues like managing social media, boundaries, healthy limits and consequences, sex, drinking and addiction, and seeking resolution, it's critical to be able to manage your own triggers and emotions to get your desired outcome.

What if Your Teen Isn't the Problem teaches parents how to explore and manage their emotions that gets activated while parenting and start going inward instead of projecting their fears onto their teen. When a parents emotions get projected onto their teen, the teen becomes resistant and defensive and won't listen to what the parent is saying. If they don't hear us, we won't be guiding them, outside influence will be.

In this guide parents will learn how to:

• Manage their own triggers and emotions
• Reflect on past behaviors and mistakes
• Step into their teens reality and really see and hear their teen
• Understand the difference between responding and reacting
• Develop a healthier, loving teen/parent relationship
• Communicate in a more mature manner
• Be more respected by their teen, to earn respect
• Heal your guilt from past negative behaviors
• Set boundaries with consequences with little to no push back

What if Your Teen Isn't the Problem? A Guide to Conscious Parenting will help you understand your behaviors and shift them to create a healthier relationship with your teen and everyone in your life. This guide is a completely different approach to parenting your kids through your heart and love instead of your fears.