Parenting

Advice to Generation Z: Be Nomadic.

Once again, the phone rings at my office and an anxious parent on the line is worried about their Generation Z teen and wants me to help him or her. I gently answer that I can’t, but I trust that they can. Their concerns usually revolve around their worries for their teenager’s future, based on slacking grades, demotivation, sedentariness, lots of lip and little help around the house. So I listen attentively and ask them how linear and sedentary their life…

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Why Parents Need to Become Gamers.

  “Our teenage son spends all his time gaming in the basement and it’s driving us crazy! Can you help him?” Is a request from stressed-out parents that I am getting more often over the phone. I gently answer no but tell them that I am pretty confident they can. Once in my office, they go to great lengths explaining to me how exasperated they are with the power struggles that suck the energy out of their family life. And…

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3 Ways Fathers Can Empower their Teenage Daughters.

1. Read the manual: It takes work to understand our daughters. It is a common human reaction to avoid situations where we feel incompetent. Teenage daughters often awaken that feeling in their fathers, who, like a deer in the headlights, are frozen with bewilderment. As one exacerbated father said: “I run a successful company and deal with people from all over the world, but I have no idea what to do about my 15-year-old daughter, I just don’t get her,…

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