Hello everyone!  I’m so excited to be starting a three part series on Managing Disrespect. What I would love you to do is to implement each post and tell me how you go. We will be layering content each week to give you an overview of this topic.

Saying NO to a Difficult Teenager

If you don’t learn to say NO to a difficult teenager (and let’s face it most of them are difficult) you will spend all of your time arguing and being manipulated by them.

This simple step by step process is so easy anyone can follow it. Continue Reading >>

Many well intending parents have refused their tweens access to Facebook after hearing horror stories about Cyber Bullying and Paedophiles.  So clever tweens, eager to enter the social media world, are doing the switcheroo and turning to Instagram. What they don’t tell their parents is that Instagram isn’t just photo sharing. It has all the features of social media, including the dark sides.  Snapping innocent photos of pets, drawings and social outings is just the beginning of what Instagram offers.

Basic Facts

• Instagram is a free APP.
• To the uneducated eye Instagram can look like a photography APP. It isn’t.

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I was at Lourdes Hill College last night speaking to 150 parents about managing disrespect. There was so much content I would have loved to have shared, so I have decided to start a series of posts about behaviour management and brain development over the next few weeks. That way it’s here forever. But now for communicating with teens…and a thank you to Get Ahead Kids Magazine for publishing this article.

Research conducted by Mission Australia in 2011 shows that 60% of teenagers still choose to talk to their parents about the issues that matter to them. However, most parents Continue Reading >>