Brain Food Posts:
5 Ways to More Effectively Model Behavior for your Teens
Main Blog, [ 8 MIN TO READ ]Modeling behavior for your teenager can literally affect their brain on a structural level. And here’s the catch, you’re ALWAYS modeling behavior for your teen, whether you’re consciously focused on it or not....
3 Ways Teenage Punishment Doesn’t Work the Way You Think
feature, Main Blog, [ 6 MIN TO READ ]At its core, teenage punishment is really about making sure that your teen is on the right track. In order to do that effectively, you might need to change the way you’re thinking about punishment a little....
Mirror Neurons Part 1: Your Teen Can Literally Read Your Mind
Main Blog, [ 5 MIN TO READ ][5:00 minutes to read]Neurons are the basic working cells of the brain. When you do anything at all (think, walk, ......
CBT for Teens: Helping to Reframe Negative Thoughts
Main Blog, [ 7 MIN TO READ ]The thing about habitual ways of thinking is that once we have them they’re really hard to get rid of. This is mostly fine because a great number of our thought patterns are super helpful. But every now and then we run into one of our...
Why to be a HopePunk Parent
Main Blog, [ 3 MIN TO READ ]When most people think of parenting they don’t think about it in terms of cultural idealism. Most people think of changing diapers, losing sleep, having your teenage daughter huff at you, groaning at the dinner table, getting into...
14 Cognitive Distortions That Might be Living in Your Head Rent Free
Main Blog, [ 9 MIN TO READ ]When’s the last time you questioned the nature of your reality? Every human being on this planet is out there living their life, right now, believing things about themselves and the world that don’t match up with reality and those...
How Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Can Help You Parent
Main Blog, [ 5 MIN TO READ ]We at Teen Brain Trust are big fans of CBT, and if you’re a regular consumer of our courses and other content you’ll find a lot of CBT nuggets sprinkled throughout it. In fact, part of our mission is to reframe a schema for our whole...
What are Schemas and Why are They in Your Head?
Main Blog, [ 5 MIN TO READ ]If you’re a human being, it’s natural for you to create schemas around what things are and how they work. If we didn’t then we’d go through life encountering every thing and situation as if for the first time, with none of our previous...
How to Parent Better Than G.I. Joe
Main Blog, [4 MIN TO READ]“Now you know, and knowing is half the battle” - G.I. Joe. What a lovely sentiment, right? It’s certainly something that every parent everywhere has tried at least once or twice (or a thousand times). The thing is that modern research...