If you’ve taken our course on Teenage Motivation you know we go on ad nauseum about how engaging in social situations is one of the primary drivers of teenage behavior. If this is true and teenagers are obsessed with thriving in social environments then how are they so clumsy and awkward in social situations? Well, there are a number of factors at work here so let’s take a moment to examine a few individually.
Get Your Teen Talking More with Open-Ended Questions
Easy-to-implement tips for parents on how to use open-ended questions as a conversation tool for getting teens to open up more.
A Parent’s Guide to Getting the Most out of Tiktok
Learn how to use TikTok as a tool to get through to your teen, spark engaging conversations, and even fix your household appliances.
Debunking the Myth of the ‘Lazy Teen’
Parents of teens are often frustrated by their teen’s ‘laziness’ but ‘lazy’ behavior is often a symptom of underlying issues. This article gets to the heart of how parents can look beyond the ‘laziness’ and make a positive difference in their kids’ behavior.
4 Reasons Every Parent of a Teenager Should Be Watching ‘Sex Education’
“The sex talk” – kids fear it and parents agonize over it. This Netflix series can help you talk to your teen about sex and understand their perspective.
Adolescents respond: What positive behavior have you learned from your parents’ example?
As a role model, you have a strong impact on your kid’s behavior. In this post, adolescents share positive habits they learned through their parents’ example.
Mirror Neurons Part 1: Your Teen Can Literally Read Your Mind
[5:00 minutes to read]Neurons are the basic working cells of the brain. When you do anything at all (think, walk, …
How Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Can Help You Parent
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 society, the one that views adolescents and teenagers as a ‘problem, or as problematic’. So for you nerds out there, let’s dig in a little deeper and take a look at how and why it works.
What are Schemas and Why are They in Your Head?
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 experience to back us up. It would be an incredibly inefficient way to live.