Am I pushing my teenager too hard?

With a teenager at home, it can always feel like you're doing something wrong as a parent. You're asking too many questions, you're enforcing too many rules, you aren't involved enough or offering the support that they need. It can be a particularly complicated stage of parenting. So how can we know when we should "helicopter" parent our kids and establish more boundaries, and when should we back off and let them make their own choices, mistakes and all? Lisa talks with Jennifer Johnson, Emily Spencer, and Colleen Harker in the episode of The Council of Moms to find out.

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How to Be a Better Parent By Healing Your Relationship with God

Parenting is a role in life that many of us don’t get any formal training in. We often end up parenting the way we were parented and for most of you listening the model that was shown you was a fear based parenting style. Coach Crystal Haitsma is a coach that focuses on a different approach to parenting that she likes to call connection based parenting. She has come to believe that this is truly how God parents each of us and if we want to be able to parent like He does we need to heal our relationship with Him. She is talking on the podcast today about how being a good parent is an inside healing process for the parent and when a parent does this, the children will follow and change as well. This is a great episode and one filled with hope because research shows that no matter what age your children are, even if they are adults, you can change your relationship with them and truly gain greater connection.

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Standing Up for Our Kids

"It never brings you up to bring other people down" Parenting is never an easy thing! Life Coach Kristen Goodman talks about the transformative power of compassion, acceptance, and embracing the challenges you (and your children) will face.

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Finding the Strengths in Your ADHD Child

Parenting any child is difficult but when you add on obstacles that don’t fall within what most consider the “normal” range, parenting can become even more challenging. Coach Brigette Little is a parent that struggles with ADHD herself and has children who struggle from ADHD - these two dynamics add more obstacles then can typically be present in parenting, but there is hope. Brigette helps parents of ADHD children learn to focus more on the strengths their child brings instead of the weaknesses. She has found that by focusing on strengths of an ADHD child helps everyone to look at situations differently and to be able to come up with wonderful solutions and much better outcomes.  If you are a parent of an ADHD child or if you feel like you struggle with ADHD yourself, this is the episode for you. If you feel like you need extra help, please reach out to Brigette.

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Parents are Friends, Not Foes

Parents may frustrate you sometimes, and you may even find them annoying sometimes (especially if you're a teenager)! But even though they may embarrass you or drive you crazy sometimes, your parents are there to help you through the ups and downs you're bound to face in life! Hank Smith shares a hilarious take on the many ways your parents are here to help you succeed both in life, and as a Child of God.

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Let Your Light Shine

You have a light – it’s time to let it shine! But how do you light the fire within when it sometimes feels like there's barely enough light to brighten anyone's day, let alone your own? Discover new ways to let the light inside you grow (and shine more brightly than ever before) through Carmen Herbert's personal experiences of learning how to serve others in simple ways!

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