Parenting & parent-teen coach
Veronica Petre
I coach parents of teenagers.
You have tried everything you can think of: to stay calm, to be firm, to say nothing at all...
And your teenager still does the exact opposite of what you ask from them !
You are not failing at this.
You're just missing a skill that nobody taught you.
Here is what took me a long time to see: listening and making someone feel listened to are two different things.
You can be listening with your whole heart, and your teenager still doesn't know it.
What closes that gap is how you answer.
So the skill is both parts at once:
1) listening to your teenager, and
2) answering in a way that lets them feel listened to.
The second part is the one nobody teaches.
Like a new language, this skill comes with rules you can learn, and I will help you practice it until it feels natural.
The answering is the hard part, because it has to arrive in the moment, which is why it helps to practice it somewhere calm.
A more complete website is coming soon.
In the meantime, you can already use a tool I built (English & Français):
Listen First
Practice the part that is hardest in the moment: listening before you answer.
Open the app