Positive Discipline for Parents of Teenagers

Looking for a better way to discipline?

Youth Eastside Services now offers classes using the positive parenting approach recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

In this series, parents of teens will learn how to:

• Understand how personality and temperament differences affect your family.
• Support your teen’s developmental stage.
• Make the most of family time.
• Defuse power struggles by learning how to validate the emotions in your family.
• Learn how to create agreements with your teen.
• Communicate so both you and your teen feel listened to and understood.
• Teach your teen necessary life skills and that mistakes are opportunities to learn.
• Use encouragement to help build your bond with your child.
• Explore the use of family meetings as a way to reduce conflict.
• Use mutual respect and see behavior improve.
• Be kind and firm at the same time.