Tracy Tresidder Golf Mind Coach

Teenager Chores and Family Responsibility

Today's teenagers face a massive amount of input from various sources. Television, radio, the internet, their peers, and many other distractions are part of their everyday lives. The amount of visual and auditory stimuli is at an all time high. Almost ... Read >

Teenage Sleep Habits

As kids move into the teen years there is a distinct change in their sleeping patterns. As any parent of a teenager knows, trying to wake a sleeping adolescent can be, to put it mildly, difficult. They are often grumpy and monosyllabic until later in the ... Read >

Super Parent Coach

The Super Nanny phenomenon has hit with a vengeance. Parents of toddlers and young children are being given weekly tips and strategies to bring more peace and harmony into the home.While I don't necessarily agree with all her techniques, the Super Nanny d... Read >

Internet use and teenagers

Teens everywhere are using the computer to connect to family, friends and even strangers. My Space and MSN are two very popular avenues they use to communicate with one another. Teens love the convenience of being able to log online and talk with people f... Read >

10 Proven Steps To Talk To Your Kids So They Will Listen

A client asked me how to talk to her 14 year old son when she knew that something was bothering him but he wouldn't open up. Let's begin with some basic biology. Boy's brains are wired slightly differently to girl's brains.Within a girl's brain, a lot mor... Read >

Teenage Affluenza

Is this an epidemic fuelled by parents?Is life too easy?Life is so easy for too many children; they don't know what it means to work hard to acquire their desires. They ask for and are given just about everything they want far too easily. We are in a gene... Read >

What Every Parent Should Know About Alcohol And The Teenage Brain

We hear cases of it all the time. Teenagers, who have been experimenting with alcohol, sometimes have horrendous, harmful consequences both physically and mentally. What many parents may not be aware of is that according to recent studies, your teenager's... Read >