Parents help teens while staying out of their way with spotivity
How can parents stay connected and offer guidance without being overly involved?
How can parents stay connected and offer guidance without being overly involved?
When tackling weaknesses, the drive to improve kicks in and helps to learn. Weaknesses are goals and help to build a proper mindset. Overcoming these weaknesses creates a killer mentality that has helped people excel and jumpstart their careers.
What happens when something you have done all of your life isn’t what you love anymore?
All of us as teenagers put the weight of the world on our shoulders and expect nothing but perfection as an outcome. Whether that be in our social, academic, or professional lives, we tend to overanalyze every little detail and make ourselves unnecessarily anxious.
Being a teen is never easy. We have so much to deal with and so few people to talk to. We can feel hopeless at times and even feel like giving up. But trying new things can be undoubtedly daunting.
Summer vacation gives us the opportunity to unwind and refresh ourselves in preparation for the coming academic year. Have you given any thought to making your summer more productive so that you don’t waste your time lazing around all day and feeling rather aimless?
Think back to your childhood for a minute. How often was it something where you couldn’t argue with your parents about, they simply demanded, and you delivered or responded and that was that?
If your child doesn’t want to play competitive sports, there are still plenty of after-school activities they can participate in. Here’s what you should do: First, talk with your teen to understand better why sports do not appeal to them. It could be that they’re not interested in the competition, or they don’t like the…
As a school administrator or counselor, you know that after-school programming is important for the overall development of your students. But what kind of after-school activities are most effective for student engagement and development that don’t fall under the all-encompassing sports catch-all? Not everything ought to be physical. We’ve broken them down into two categories…