Picture this: You are a big fan of welcoming your family back home each day, especially after school – snacks are ready, time is set aside to hear all about their day. You love this Welcome Home Party Time. But your teen is built differently from you... they are quiet and reserved in nature, and after [...]
“Just Me and Mom Talk Time” - one of my favorite activities! And yet one of the most challenging things for a fun-loving, fast-paced adult to accomplish with a slower-paced teen. As we go through the DISC Style Adult to Teen Series, the combination we will discuss this week is the High I Adult and the [...]
PICNIC – just hearing the word sets me into action mode – pulling out our Family Heirloom picnic basket and loading it up if there’s any chance at all that the weather will cooperate. This is just one indication of my High I-Style that I share with my children. As we go through the Adult to [...]
Have you ever thought “things are going really well with my teen” only to have several challenges sprout up overnight that exhaust you just thinking about how to handle them? What is the best way to "hold the line" in each situation? As we go through the Adult to Teen DISC Series, the combination we will [...]
Have you had this experience? You have a mound of suitcases, satchels, and various sizes of items that need to be packed into your car. As you stand eyeing the challenge, your teen steps up with a clear plan of how they will all fit, then proceeds to make it happen. This is the High C-Style [...]
Did you ever give a teen instructions or feedback, then suddenly, they completely withdrew into their shell, closing you off? As we seek as adults to relate well with teens, whether they are in our family, our neighborhood, our church group, or our practice, we can use the DISC System to give us another layer of [...]
