Now on to Talk Topics

September 20, 2011

For the last five weeks we have been talking about TYPES OF TALK – how you talk to your teen in certain circumstances. If you haven’t downloaded the full E-Book yet, we hope you will visit our Facebook Page, “like” us and get the link to download the book. For the next five weeks we […]

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TYPE OF TALK: Mad Talk

September 13, 2011

Some things should absolutely make us mad. Anger is an appropriate reaction for certain behaviors, comments or decisions our teen might make. That does not translate into yelling, however. Anger is communicated a number of different ways. The image of a parent yelling with a totally red face and blood vessels popping may be popular […]

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TYPE OF TALK: Serious Talk

September 6, 2011

This is the direct opposite of Funny Talk. Some situations are just serious. If you think your teen is engaging in dangerous or life threatening behavior, you have probably even passed the point of Serious Talk and need a more dramatic intervention or professional help. However, there are times short of a major crisis, when […]

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TYPES OF TALK: Funny Talk

August 30, 2011

This type of talk understands the power of a joke. As in all joke telling, timing is everything. It’s not good strategy if, when your teenage daughter is in tears because a girlfriend said mean things, you choose that moment to launch into your latest “did you hear the one…” jokes. But there are many […]

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TYPE OF TALK: Soft Talk

August 23, 2011

Type 2: Soft Talk This type of talk uses the power of a whisper. The more upset we get, the more we are likely to raise our voice. The more frustrated we are, the more the tone of our voice changes. I think this is one of the hardest types of talk. I tend to […]

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TYPES OF TALK: Less Talk

August 16, 2011

TYPES OF TALK: Less Talk Silence is golden – sometimes. There are moments when your teen expects you to come out with a whole lot of words and a whole lot of emotions. What would happen if you just didn’t? Obviously we are not talking about moments of grave danger for your teen or when […]

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Get Ready to Talk to Your Teen

August 15, 2011

If you haven’t been reading the Teen Talk….Ten Tips Ebook (which is free if you like our Facebook page), we thought you might enjoy getting parts of it on our Parent Talk Blog. For the next five weeks we will be sharing our TYPES of TALK, giving you some tips on how to talk with […]

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Teen Talk….Ten Tips

August 11, 2011

There is a lot of talk out there about talking to your teen. You should tell your teen about drugs, you should tell your teen about sex, you should tell your teen what you expect. It seems that most of this advice is what you should tell your teen. We thought it might be a […]

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Summer Food Program

June 18, 2011

Our non-profit agency, Girls First, Inc., is involved in the Summer Food Program!! This program provides nutritious meals on a daily basis for the summer season. It’s like the school lunch program extended into the summer. We are very excited that we can participate in a program that can make such a difference. Families can […]

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Why Parent Talk

May 27, 2011

There are over 156 million public blogs on the Internet as of February of 2011. When searching for blog posts or comments on parenting I got 95,000 links to posts or messages (I got 150,000 when I searched for teens). You have to be asking yourself – “Who are you and why are writing this […]

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