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3 Proven Tactics to Help Your Teen Embrace Challenges and Achieve Their Goals

What's the best way to encourage your teen to set goals and persevere through challenges? Let me tell you…

Is your teen aimlessly drifting through life, lacking direction and purpose? It’s a common challenge for many parents. Here are 3 simple tactics to empower your teen to set meaningful goals and navigate their path to success.

3 Tactics to Help Your Teen Build Strong and Positive Friendships

Here's how you're going to help your teen build strong friendships in 2024. ⬇️

3 Must-have Strategies to Curb Teen Tech Addiction

📱Want to know what savvy parents do to help their teens develop healthy tech habits? Read on⬇️

If you're concerned about your teen's tech habits, here are three proven strategies to help them navigate the digital landscape responsibly and maintain a healthy balance between the virtual and real worlds. 💯

Pro Parenting Tip #49: Listen with Empathy

When faced with teen anxiety, the most potent tool in our arsenal is empathetic listening. By wholeheartedly understanding their struggles and offering genuine validation, we empower them to confront stressors and navigate through them with newfound strength.

Pro Parenting Tip #48: Tap into Mirror Neurons

"Do as I say, not as I do." Even though we may joke about it, the reality hits close to home. How often have we unintentionally mirrored behaviors we caution our kids against? 🙈 From urging them to stop yelling while raising our voices, to grabbing objects from their hands in response to their snatching, we've all been there. But, logically and biologically, this approach falls short.

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Parenting Style - Reining Them In or Raising Them Up?

Interview on Pieces of a Woman Podcast

In this episode, we talk with Adolescent Psychologist and Family Success Coach, Dr. Cam, all about how to parent your teens. Dr. Cam shares so many amazing nuggets of info that anyone can use to help better understand their teens and raise them to be the best they can be.

Diving into Teens with Dr. Cam on the Mom Files

In this episode of The Mom Files with Danielle Delaney, Dr. Cam shares practical tips and insights for raising teens without the conflict and disconnect.

Parenting Teens Podcasts about Teen Development

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Grades, College & Careers with Deepali Vyas

In this episode I’m joined by Deepali Vyas, the founder and CEO of Fearless+. Deepali spent 22 years as an executive recruiter and leadership consultant, reviewing over 100,000 resumes, filling 40,000 executive jobs, and conducting C-Suite leadership assessments. Now, she is helping the next generation prepare for their future careers.

Advocating for Classroom Inclusion with Olivier Bernier

In this episode of Parenting Teens with Dr. Cam, I’m joined by father and filmmaker Olivier Bernier. Olivier and his wife Hilde created the award-winning documentary, “Forget Me Not: Inclusion in the Classroom,” which follows their journey as their son Emilio with down syndrome prepares to start school. The film aims to break down the social and systemic barriers that routinely segregate and hide children with intellectual disabilities from society.

Olivier shares his story and provides guidance on how we can address the inequities in the education system for our own children.

Prepping Teens for the Future with Michael Trezza

If you want to prepare your teen to be successful in their careers or whatever they decide to do in the future, this episode is for you.

In this episode I’m joined by Michael Trezza, the Founder and CEO of Giant Leaps Learning, an online after-school enrichment program. Michael and his team help kids master the skills they’ll need become great leaders not just in the future, but right now.

Michael talks to us about the foundational routines and behaviors he believes are essential for setting our teens up to thrive.

Managing Teen Emotions with Gina Nelson

Do your teen’s erratic mood swings and emotional outbursts make you feel like you’re on a never-ending rollercoaster ride? Then this episode is for you.

Building Up Your Teen’s Self-Confidence with Kate Lund

If you’re worried your teen may be sending or receiving inappropriate snapchats, texts, and DMs, this episode is for you. In this episode, I’m joined by Christy Keating, founder and CEO of The Heartful Parent, to discuss how to talk to our teens about consent, and what to do if we discover they’ve been sexting.

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