Parenting Teens Wisely - The Basics

a Five-week course

An effective approach for parenting help

April 5 - May 3, 2025

Class meets Saturdays, 9:00 - 10:30 am EST via Zoom.

This class is for parents who want to respond wisely to their teens.

  • Understand why some teens are more challenging and how typical parenting strategies can inadvertently make things worse.

  • Identify a powerful response that enhances a teen’s emotional resilience.

  • Discover the best way to inspire positive change in your teen.

  • Explore strategies for cultivating connection.

To get on the waiting list for the next course, click below.

Parenting course outline

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Week 1: Parenting Teens Wisely

Discover how parenting strategies that may work with one teen can exacerbate problems and contribute to negative behavior patterns in other teens. Explore how wise parenting can help. Create a plan to begin this more effective approach to parenting.

Week 2: Finding Balance

Adolescence is a time of monumental change. It’s often hard to determine how best to respond or whether your teen’s behaviors are normal or whether you should be concerned. This class explores these issues and helps parents begin to put together a plan for cultivating their teen’s resilience.

Week 3: Responding Wisely to Emotions

Many teens lack the ability to navigate their emotions turning to behaviors that interfere with their ability to live their best life. This class explores common responses that can increase their distress and teaches helpful responses parents can use to reduce emotional intensity while also cultivating parent and teen connection.

Week 4: Creating Positive Change

Teen’s problematic behaviors are frequently their unskillful way of dealing with distress. This class offers parents tools for responding in ways that help to increase a teen’s skillful behavior and reduce a teen’s unskillful behavior. Determine a plan for responding wisely to your teen’s behaviors.

Week 5: Cultivating Harmonious Relationships

For our final class we will explore skills to help cultivate more positivity and healthier boundaries. We will also review successes, identify challenges, and develop a plan to ensure lasting change.

What to expect with Our parenting course:

  • Once you’ve registered you will receive information about how to get the most out of our class.

  • We meet weekly for 5 classes.

  • Class size is limited to ensure a robust experience.

Between classes:

  • We make specific and simple recommendations that parents can practice throughout the course.

  • Practicing these skills helps to promote positive change.

  • Between classes we send helpful and encouraging emails to enhance learning and motivation.

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This course is for you if you want to:

Understand why some teens are more challenging

  • Respond effectively to challenges rather than react emotionally

  • Know that you are not inadvertently contributing to patterns of problematic behavior

  • Experience compassion and joy

  • Have tools for improved communication and boundaries

  • Experience more confidence in your parenting

This course is not for you if:

You want to change your teen

  • You want a quick fix to the problems that you’re experiencing with your teen

Unsure if this class is for you?

Details:

  • Our next class will meet weekly on Saturday mornings, 9:00 - 10:30 am, EST from April 5 - May 3.

  • Classes will meet on Zoom.

Join the Waiting List:

  • Cost - $500 for the 5-week class.

  • Payment plans are available.

  • Join our waiting list. See the link below.

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 FAQs

  • No, insurance does not cover this class.

  • Because we don’t provide a receipt that satisfies health savings plan requirements, such as including diagnosis code and other codes, health savings plans are not an option.

  • No. This is a class and not therapy.

  • Yes, please email me (Jan@ParentingTeensWisely.com) to make payment arrangements.

  • Sometimes unexpected things occur requiring a participant to miss. We will send you the handouts you missed, and we always will review the previous class material in the next class. We are always available after class to answer questions.

  • Yes, many parents have found it very helpful to take the course more than once.

  • We encourage spouses to attend.

  • Sorry, but we do not provide reimbursements.

  • Responding to questions, asking questions, and sharing your experience using the skills enhances learning. While we encourage voluntary participation, we also respect a participant’s wish not to share.

  • This is not a therapy group, so we keep our focus on the skills. Nonetheless, on the first day of every course, we urge participants to respect class members’ confidentiality.

Testimonials

“Since participating in the class I’m calmer, I listen more and my daughter responds more positively to me.” Valerie 

“I started to focus on me, making positive changes. Our home is so much more peaceful and happier. There’s more communication and trust.” Sara 

“We’re engaged in more positive interactions.” Laura

“I feel much better equipped to deal with my child’s problems and I loved the opportunity to meet with other parents. It helps to know that I’m not alone!” John 

“Jan and Joe really understand how to break down parenting with teens so that we can remember the simple joys of it. Their sessions brought me peace and confidence along with simple tools to help each day. I really appreciate that they made me look at myself first, realizing that in order to be an effective parent I have to start with me.” Brooke

“I had almost given up hope that my daughter would learn to control her emotions enough to live a happy, normal life. Years of therapy wasn’t really helping. (We all know you can’t help someone who doesn’t want to be helped). So I was thrilled to learn of this kind of class! I was able to help my daughter deal with her emotions in a different way-and with practice it made all the difference! And the things I learned helped every one of my relationships! I can’t say enough about Jan and Joe and how they encouraged me all along the way- touching base during the week and giving us practical skills we could use at home. I was sad when our class ended! This class absolutely changed our live.” Whitney

“This class was a real game changer for me. I thought that I knew a lot about raising children. Now I know that I have a lot to learn and this class has set me on a path of learning that will continue to challenge me and enrich all my relationships. I was most surprised to discover that I was reinforcing the behaviors that I didn’t want and failing to reward those that were desired. I had never considered the use of behavioral principles. It’s so simple but totally counterintuitive for me. Most importantly, I now know that I must utilize these lessons in my own daily life before I will be the effective parent that I wish to be. I have found that validation is one of the powerful skills for enhancing trust and setting the stage for a teen to come to me for support. Thank you, Jan and Joe, for making this priceless information available.” Jack