shift the course of your tween’s journey
Resources for forward-looking parents and their 8- to 12-year-olds, strengthening their communication and mental health now…and for the years ahead.
Get A simple tool to help your tween open up.
We know the ability to talk about emotions is a core skill with multiple benefits…
But does your tween come up blank when you ask about their feelings?
Do they act out their emotions instead of talking to you?
Here’s a simple tool that can help your child reflect, identify, and communicate what’s going on.
Your digital feelings chart comes in two colors and two sizes in addition to the Parent Guide on how to use it.
how can I help my tween and why now?
If it feels like our children today are facing more stressors than ever before, you‘re probably right. There is more violence in the news, financial anxiety, concerns about artificial intelligence and future job security, and harmful information reaching our kids on social media, just to name a few. It can make a parent anxious! Imagine how our kids must be feeling too.
In addition, parents are feeling stressed over the ups and downs of tween behavior and emotions. If you’re like many parents, raising a younger child may have seemed more straightforward (even if exhausting!), but communicating with your 8-12 year old probably feels trickier. Despite our best efforts to help them, tweens tend to push back more often and exhibit more negativity and intensity in their emotions.
Despite the fact that these changes are normal and expected, they can feel hard to manage. Additionally, if you’ve tuned in to the negative research findings in the news about teens and mental health, you want to do whatever it takes to avoid the epidemic of depression and anxiety in teenagers. Which always comes sooner than you think! The good news is that there are plenty of positive steps you can take to help prepare and protect your tween - and it’s easier than starting during the teen years. You can start now helping your child learn healthier emotional self-management, helpful and positive beliefs about themselves and others, effective and appropriate ways to get their needs met, and ways to resolve friendship issues.
We can’t protect our kids from everything, BUT we can give them the best chances of being resilient and thriving in this world now and in the future.
Allow me to introduce myself
Hi, I’m Dr. Leah!
As a licensed psychologist, my passion is helping tweens and families find their way. Drawing upon my 25+ years of working with children, I help parents to understand what their child’s behavior is really saying, to demonstrate emotional responsiveness, improve independence in their tween, and solve problems in order to create positive changes in their interactions with their children that can last a lifetime.
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