Tools for Your 15-Year-Old

Listen to an audio file of this tool. Now is the Right Time! As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-teen relationship, and growing your 15-year-old teen’s skills to manage anger provides a perfect opportunity. Teens … Read more

Listen to an audio file of this tool. Now Is the Right Time! As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-teen relationship and growing your 15-year-old teen’s skills to communicate respectfully provides a perfect opportunity. Conflict … Read more

Listen to an audio file of this tool. “Ultimately, the only power to which humans should aspire is that which s/he exercises over her/himself.” – Eli Weisel Now Is the Right Time! As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your teen’s success. Helping your 15-year-old teen learn … Read more

Listen to an audio file of this tool. Now Is the Right Time! As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your 15-year-old teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-teen relationship, and daily chores provide a perfect opportunity. Chores allow your teen to play … Read more

Listen to an audio file of this tool. Now Is the Right Time! As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-teen relationship while building a sense of confidence in your 15-year-old teen that they can work … Read more

Listen to an audio file of this tool. Now Is the Right Time! As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-teen relationship, and growing your 15-year-old teen’s skills to manage conflict provides a perfect opportunity. Conflict … Read more

Listen to an audio file of this tool. Now Is the Right Time! Teens ages 15-19 are actively finding ways to assert independence with confidence but may also feel fragile and vulnerable about their future adult lives. They will naturally test limits and break rules. Your teen’s natural need for risk taking, desire for independence, … Read more

Listen to an audio file of this tool. Now Is the Right Time! As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in helping your teen develop empathy. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-teen relationship while growing your teen’s capacity for empathy from the time they are … Read more

Listen to an audio file of this tool. Now Is the Right Time! As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-teen relationship, and creating rules about alcohol helps establish the supportive conditions necessary for your 15-year-old … Read more

Listen to an audio file of this tool. Now Is the Right Time! As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-teen relationship, and creating rules about marijuana helps establish the supportive conditions necessary for your teen … Read more

Listen to an audio file of this tool. Now Is the Right Time! As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your teen’s success. Helping your 15-year-old teen grow healthy friendships is essential. Through relationships, your teen develops a sense of belonging. They come to better understand themselves … Read more

Listen to an audio file of this tool. “I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.” – Fred Rogers Now Is the Right Time! Teens age 15 are actively finding ways to assert independence with confidence but may also feel fragile and vulnerable about their future adult lives. … Read more

Listen to an audio file of this tool. Now Is the Right Time! As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your 15-year-old teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-teen relationship, and setting up a daily homework routine provides a perfect opportunity. Teens and … Read more

Listen to an audio file of this tool. Now Is the Right Time! As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-teen relationship while building essential listening skills in your 15-year-old teen. Your teen’s success depends upon … Read more

Listen to an audio file of this tool. Now Is the Right Time! Trust is an essential foundation for healthy relationships. As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your 15-year-old teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-teen relationship, and understanding how to promote … Read more

Listen to an audio file of this tool. Now Is the Right Time! Now is the right time to become more fully informed about the challenges that may face your 15-year-old teen about alcohol and how you can position them for success. Motor vehicle crashes, overdoses, and suicide account for six out of every 10 … Read more

Listen to an audio file of this tool. Now Is the Right Time! Now is the right time to become more fully informed about the challenges regarding marijuana that may face your teen and how you can position them for success. Marijuana use among teens both nationally and in Montana has not changed in recent … Read more

Now Is the Right Time! As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your teen’s success and health. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-teen relationship, and helping your teen learn about ways to deal with peer pressure provides a perfect opportunity. Teens and emerging young … Read more

Listen to an audio file of this tool. Now Is the Right Time! As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your 15-year-old teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-teen relationship, and growing skills in reading is a great way to do it. Reading … Read more

Listen to an audio file of this tool. Now Is the Right Time! Teens ages 15-19 are redefining their identity as they contemplate upcoming adulthood. Though they may have adult-looking physical features, they still require guidance and clear rules. They are seeking independence, defining who they are and will be as they approach adulthood, and … Read more

Listen to an audio file of this tool. Now Is the Right Time! Teens age 15 are working on understanding what it means to act responsibly. They are working to understand the rules and apply them in various settings. They are working on their own independence. They are increasingly taking care of their bodies (eating … Read more

Listen to an audio file of this tool. Now Is the Right Time! As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your 15-year-old teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-teen relationship, and daily routines provide a perfect opportunity. Routines not only help your family … Read more

Listen to an audio file of this tool. Now Is the Right Time! Teens and adults alike experience stress. Stress is typically caused by an external trigger like an angry sibling shouting “You can’t have my game!” or a parent insisting a teen needs to stop talking on the phone and do their chores. Feelings … Read more

Listen to an audio file of this tool. Now Is the Right Time! Teens ages 15-19 will not only be noting differences in the world, they may be directly seeking more diversity as they venture into life after high school, whether that involves college or the work world. Parents and those in a parenting role … Read more