Coaching For Teenagers

The image of the truculent teenager and the frustrated parent is prevalent in movies and TV today, not to mention numerous reality shows including "brat camp" adventures. While communication between teenagers becomes faster and easier by the minute and instant messaging and texting, communication between parents and teenagers becomes harder.

Many parents and teenagers feel deeply frustrated by the lack of communication and seeming lack of understanding they share with each other. From homework, to holidays, and money, and boyfriends and girlfriends, it can all seems a long and unrewarding uphill struggle for everyone involved.

How does coaching for teenagers help?

Coaching for teenagers is now a popular intervention whereby the two ‘sides’ can come together in a neutral space to discuss their real concerns and expectations, and put them into the real context of life at home.

  Unlike other more traditional forms of family therapy, there is not much space for blame or anger or a refusal to let things improve.

  No-one is right or wrong in this scenario. It is about moving forward with the expectations and hopes that we have, and respecting each other's differences in attitude and opinion.

  Like any and every other form of coaching, coaching for teenagers involves high degrees of trust and also involvement (and co-operation) from all parties. It is not about blame, or about bringing in a third party to validate our anxieties. It is about moving forward as a family unit.

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