Before devoting all my energy to developing Youth4Youth, I facilitated multiple parenting workshops every year. They were always a two-part session with the second following two weeks after the first. The first session would be filled with moms who would come up to me after and say thank you so much! That was always followed by, “I wish my husband would have been here to experience this.”
So I would give them a slip of paper to take home and give to their hubby that said, “I just spent the evening surrounded by many great couples. I hope you will join us for our next session.” And the next session - all the husbands would show up, each probably thinking they were the only husbands not there for the first session.
Well, over the last three months, those closest to me and those in my mastermind group have been pushing me to start working with parents again. I use the word pushing because they haven’t let the subject drop and somehow almost every conversation ends with “that would be a great idea for you to share with other parents, don’t you think?” Or they will ask me, “What I think of this idea for a parent topic?” Or my favorite, “I was thinking last night and I wrote down some ideas for you to use when you get back into doing your parent workshops.”
Well all this has taken me closer to the “tipping point” on the subject. But the tipping point came when a panel of teens, voted my book, The Secret of the Can, one of the 50 Top Parenting books. Now have a new parent brochure, I’ve put a parent page on my website and I’m starting parenting Teleseminars this August and September.
So here I am getting back to something I have a special gift for, sharing success skills with parents. I invite you to join me on the journey.
Here are a few articles to dive into and sites that may provide useful information, resources and ideas.
10 Rules Kids Wished Their Parents Lived By Here are our radical parenting principles put together by Vanessa and our Teen Team of how we wish parenting would be.
50 Best Mom Blogs Parents always ask us “which websites should I read?” Here we did a complete overview of our favorite mommy bloggers across the net with reviews, favorite articles and descriptions.
These articles are by Vanessa Van Petten who runs RadicalParenting.com a parenting blog written from the kid’s perspective with 20 teen writers. Their goal is to give parents a secret view into the world of kids and youth.
Larry Tracey is a parent and teen coach, who teaches success and leadership life skills. He is author of a book for teens, pre-teens and those who once were teens, titled The Secret of the CAN. Larry is founder of Youth4Youth and believes each child has the potential to be successful. Contact Larry Tracey at parenting@youth4youth.org
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