Connecting, Monitoring, Encouraging Autonomy

Parenting Teens

There are three major areas that are crucial to the parent-teen relationship – connection, monitoring, and psychological autonomy. A sense of connection between a teenager and parent provides a backdrop against which all other interaction takes place.  If the parent-child connection is consistent, positive, and …

Three Resolutions: Self-Discipline, Character, Service to Others

Resolutions

by Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families Making and keeping these three universal resolutions will accelerate our self-development and, potentially, increase our influence with others. Every individual struggles to gain and maintain alignment with core values, ethics …