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Getting Started

The following pages will provide you with some invaluable insight, research, tricks and techniques that you can you use to make the most of your family’s interactions. If you’re like me, your mouse is already hovering over the Body Language or Talking Point’s button, but don’t click yet! Before you can truly take advantage of those tools, you’ve got to get the basics firmly in check. So lets start by taking stock of your new home environment. If you’re like most of us:

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  • Your Teenagers Need Your Guidance More Than Ever
  • Your Teenagers Want Your Guidance Less Than Ever
  • They’re Spending Less Time at Home, and
  • When They Are Home, They’re Spending Less Time With You
  • When They Do Ask You a Question, it Usually Starts With “Can I Have…”


These circumstances are tough as is. Trying to wedge some sort of a consequential conversation into this maelstrom requires a lot of patience and a little deliberate planning. Woe is the parent who tries to vomit out their important expectations as their daughter scurries towards a waiting car. So how does the MpoweredParent do it?

Develop a Plan

We prepare for these things the way we would prepare for a team meeting or company presentation. We choose the most important points for discussion, organize a concise and direct way of communicating them, and then construct an environment that facilitates effective communication. Yup, its best to do this pre-game planning on a pad of paper. If its sounding a bit too deliberate for you, compare the importance of your last job interview or public speaking engagement to the importance of your parent to child communication. No doubt, your child’s future takes the cake. So lets do this like we mean it.

Don’t worry, the development of this plan doesn’t foreshadow a lecture. Our structured planning at this stage, actually contributes to an efficient and natural flow of information later on. In fact for families, the most effective “environment” to facilitate our conversations is at the dinner table. And the most potent way to deliver your lessons by stimulating an engaging dialogue. We’ll help with both of these elements in a moment. For now, lets develop your goals. (click here)

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