Latest from Todd Kestin
Solution: Human Connection for your Teen/Young Adult
Dear Friends, Do you worry about your teen/young adult struggling more now due to a lack of in-person socialization? Do you wish they were embracing the moment more, regardless of what is happening in the world? A possible solution: INTERACTIVE MEETINGS for...
Calming In a World of Chaos
I'm used to talking to parents, whether in my articles or in my sessions with them, about how to help their teenagers make stressful adjustments we've all had to make at some point in our lives. What qualifies us to teach our teens is that we've been through it before...
5 Tips to Motivate Your Teen
As they say, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. The same is true for your teen. Though we may know what's best for our kids (or at least think we do), we can't make them do it. They have to want to do it themselves. In other words, they have...
How to Open Your Teen’s Mind
One of our most sacred roles as parents is to prepare our children for a successful future. What success means to each of us may differ, but we can all agree that resilience, flexibility, and adaptability play a large role. How, then, do we weave these qualities in...
The Truth About Teens And Weed
On an afternoon I’ll never forget, one of my teen clients walked through the door, dropped into a chair, and proudly stated that he had discovered the key to happiness: weed. It’s his medicine, he says, and it makes him feel good. If he could only get a...
Networking: It’s Not Just for Adults Anymore
Co-authored by Dennis Charles, author of Word Of Mouth: Networking To Take Your Business Into The Stratosphere When you push aside all the technology, all the gadgets and apps and filters, you’re left with a simple truth: we’re people who like to connect...
Learning Disabilities: Telling a New Story
I was diagnosed with a learning disability in first grade, and every day for ten years after I struggled in every way imaginable. I was scared, hurt, angry, and defiant. Apparently there was only one way to teach and one way to learn. That’s what I was...
Keep Calm and Parent On
The other day I noticed a mother vibrating with stress attempting to calm her crying baby. The little one couldn’t crawl, walk, or talk, but her instinctual senses were sharp enough to know stress when she heard, saw, and felt it. The mother’s attempts...
Four Steps to Becoming a Rock Star Parent in 2018
It’s that time of year, the time to set goals and resolutions for the year to come. From starting diets and making more money to living of life of your dreams, goals of virtually every shape and size bounce throughout the days and weeks of January. But a...
Are You Ready for the Teen Transition?
From the moment they placed that bundle of joy and hope and love in your arms, you’ve been in control. You spoke, they listened. (At least that was the plan.) Now you have something else on your hands. Now you have a teenager. With this new arrival comes a...
Free Parenting Guide
After years spent helping teens successfully transition to becoming happy, healthy, responsible adults, I’ve discovered 7 qualities that make the difference, qualities that are present in every teen that thrives…and missing from every teen that struggles to make his or her way in the world.
