Parents and Caregivers

What Are Their Hopes and Dreams?

by Ann Welch | March 23, 2023 | Goals, Parenting, Parents and Caregivers, Skills for Students, Success, Teens and Young Adults | 0 Comments

Self-Awareness matters!Many teens and young adults know what they want for their futures but don’t know how to get there. Others don’t know what they want and have no idea how to figure it out. No matter where teenagers fall on that continuum, developing...

Tools for Time Tracking: Cultivating Accurate Self-awareness

by Ann Welch | February 21, 2023 | Goals, Parenting, Parents and Caregivers, Skills for Students, Success, Teens and Young Adults, Time Management | 0 Comments

In my last blog, I explained the importance of time tracking in developing self-awareness, or time-awareness, in teens. I recommended that teens use a log to chart their time. Because self-awareness is such an important skill for teens to develop, I thought I would...

If Eisenhower Were Alive Today

by Ann Welch | January 27, 2023 | Goals, Parents and Caregivers, Skills for Students, Teens and Young Adults, Time Management | 0 Comments

Can’t decide what to do next? President Eisenhower can help! Eisenhower’s approach to leadership, organization, and prioritization has been developed into a tool called the Eisenhower Matrix. If you conduct a Google search on the matrix, you will find a variety of...

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Time: Friend or Foe

by Ann Welch | January 23, 2023 | Goals, Parents and Caregivers, Skills for Students, Teens and Young Adults, Time Management | 0 Comments

While the Rolling Stones sing “Time is On My Side” over and over in my mind today, I am struck by the application of those words in the topic of time management. I had been missing a key component in my usage of time management tools and strategies: a positive...

The Balance of Empowerment

by Ann Welch | August 26, 2022 | Parenting, Parents and Caregivers, Skills for Students, Success, Teens and Young Adults | 0 Comments

Teens want a say. They have their opinions, and they want to share them. They want to feel empowered to think, believe, feel, and do anything and everything they want to! Some people suggest that parents should let their teens be empowered for everything. Some suggest...

Decisions, Decisions

by Ann Welch | August 22, 2022 | Parents and Caregivers, Teens and Young Adults | 0 Comments

What do you want your teen to know how to do? How can you teach them how to do it? An important skill for success in the 21st century is decision-making. While our teens make decisions every day from what to wear to who to hang out with, large decisions require more...

The Power of “Could”

by Ann Welch | August 12, 2022 | Parenting, Parents and Caregivers, Teens and Young Adults | 0 Comments

How many times have you heard well-meaning (and not-so-well-meaning) people say, "You should ______" regarding your teenager? When it came to raising my boys, I heard it often. Looking back, I realize that while they were saying "should", the word I needed to hear was...

Iterations

by Ann Welch | August 8, 2022 | Parenting, Parents and Caregivers, Teens and Young Adults | 0 Comments

Helping teens learn how to make decisions is key to their growth and our sanity. Teens by their very nature can be impulsive. Having the tools necessary to think things out, make decisions, and problem solve are essential. Often these tools work together as part of an...

Do They Know What You Do?

by Ann Welch | August 1, 2022 | Parenting, Parents and Caregivers, Teens and Young Adults | 0 Comments

Does your teen know what you do? Do they know about your work? I wonder if they really do. Each time I “travel” with students on their journey of career exploration, I hear them report that they see their parents, family members, and family friends in a new light....

Listen & Question, Question & Listen

by Ann Welch | July 22, 2022 | Parenting, Parents and Caregivers | 0 Comments

When he was sixteen, my son told me that he could not imagine any job being right for him. He expressed feeling hopeless about his future. MY son? Impossible! I am the most optimistic person on the planet, at least I think I am. Yet, there he was, stuck in a quagmire...

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