Angry outbursts, tears, and difficult behavior can be the hallmark of the teen years. We can also see these behaviors in our emotionally sensitive child as they learn to navigate the flood of emotions that overwhelms them. Matis Miller is an expert in dialectic behavior therapy and the author of The Uncontrollable Child. He uses DBT as a base for helping parents learn how to navigate these [...]
If you are a parent who avoids talking to your teenager about sex, you are not alone. Most parents stop having these conversations when kids hit puberty, but kids really need them in their teen years and even into their twenties. But what do we need to discuss? How do you broach the subject? What do we do if we’re embarrassed? What if we don’t even understand the terminology they are using?[...]
On today’s Mighty Parenting podcast, parenting experts and DASIUM co-founders, Judy Davis and Sandy Fowler take us into the world of how to use healthy coping strategies for stress relief. Managing stress and anxiety is an ever-growing challenge for teens and twenty-somethings in today’s world, and many of them either don’t have the skills or are using unhealthy coping strategies for stress [...]