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Christine Carter Influencing teens and tweeners, part 2

Christine Carter, director of Greater Good Parents | 3/25/13 | Leave a comment

In my last post, I introduced the idea of “motivational interviewing,” a way to engage with adolescents to make them feel heard, understood, and, ultimately, receptive to our wisdom.

This technique, which has been proven effective in clinical psychology, is particularly useful when we want to influence our teens or tweeners … More >

Christine Carter How to influence your teen, part 1

Christine Carter, director of Greater Good Parents | 3/11/13 | One comment

I frequently hear complaints from parents that their teenagers — or, more accurately, their adolescents — are irrational.

Kids say they want to get into a good college, for example, but then they miss school because they’ve stayed up half the night watching movies. Or they say they’d like to keep … More >

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