Posts Tagged Parenting Tips

West Ridge Academy: Helping Your Teen Choose Accountability Part 2

In this, the second podcast on the parenting task of accountability, Jeff and Mat discuss when and how the task of accountability needs to be implimented.
Jeff points out why taking accountability can be so hard for kids (and for adults too). As a parent it is important to know what your child is feeling when they being held accountable.
Mat and Jeff also go talk about 2 of the golden questions that you can ask your teen that will help the accountability process.

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West Ridge Academy: Structure, Orders, and Boundaries Part 4

This podcast will be the last in the series about structure, order, and boundaries. In this podcast we discuss the responsibility that parents have to make their home a safe place for the family members. We also define what an agreement is.

Eventually you will want to turn all of the boundaries that you set into agreements. Meaning, eventually you will want to have your teens agree to the boundaries that are set by their own choice.  Jeff gives some great examples about how to set up agreements in your home.

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West Ridge Academy: Structure, Order, and Boundaries Part 3

In this podcast Jeff and Mat keep moving forward on their discussion about creating order in your home.  Some of the topics that are covered in this podcast are:

  • Parents are still the most important influence in a child’s life.
  • How to know if a child is trying to split the parents and how you can work through that behavior.
  • How to spot a coalition and how to stop them.

Eventually you will want to turn all boundaries that are set into agreements. The next podcast will help teach you how to do that.

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West Ridge Academy: Structure, Order, and Boundaries Part 2

BoundariesIn this episode of the Hope and Healing Podcast, Jeff and Mat continue their discussion about structure, order, and boundaries. Jeff sets out 3 tools that can be used by parents to effectively create order in the lives of their children. These tools are:

  • Creating an Executive System
  • Boundaries
  • Agreements

Jeff also shares some real world stories about parenting that his wife observed at a shoe store!

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West Ridge Academy: 4 Tools You Can Use To Fix Connection Problems With Your Teen

unhappy friendsTopics Covered in today’s podcast:

How technology can create barriers to connection

3 Barriers to connection with your kids

4 Tools you can use to fix connection problems with your children

 

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West Ridge Academy: What Type Of Parent Are You?

Dad Helping With HomeworkIn our first two podcasts Mat and Jeff discussed 4 essential tasks that parents must accomplish with their children to give them the best chance to be successful in life. Those 4 tasks were to Connect, Empower, Organize, and Accountability. Your unique combination of how you accomplish these tasks make up your parenting style.

Your parenting style is one major factor which affects the behovior of your child. In the third part of ourParenting Essesntials series of podcasts, Jeff and Mat discuss how parenting style influences childrens behavior. Understanding your parenting style and the impact it has on your childs behavior is an important step in helping yourself and your children make important changes in your lives.

What happens when you focus only on empowering and connecting with their kids? What happens when parents are excellent at holding their kids accountable, but not at connecting? What happens to parents when they end up with a crisis with their kids?

Jeff and Mat answer questions like these in this podcast.

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West Ridge Academy: Parenting Essentials Part 1

Family_PicturesmallIn order to help as many parents as possible, West Ridge Academy has created the Hope and Healing Podcast. The podcast is designed to help parents who have struggling teens by providing access to the leading professionals at West Ridge and elsewhere in the community. We will provide useful information that you can apply to your family situation.

In this podcast, titled Parent Essentials Part 1, Jeff Murdock discusses the model that he has used with incredible success. he covers 2 of the essential tasks that parents must accomplish to give their child the best chance at success.

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