Have a Tween? Let’s Do Middle School Together!

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TOGETHER, you and your daughter will learn:

  • What REALLY happens to the mom-daughter relationship during puberty?
  • The ONE approach that will make middle school different for both of you.
  • The THREE skills every mom-tween daughter needs to learn

Join my workshop for moms and daughters to strengthen your bond during middle school.

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  • Want to build self-respect and confidence in your tween?
  • Navigating mood swings and big emotions?
  • Struggling with popularity, mean girls, and social media in middle school?
  • Balancing “kids will be kids” with empowering tweens in a chaotic world?
  • What happened to your sweet kid?
  • Tired of being told the “what” but not the “how” by parenting gurus?
Parenting tweens does not have to be overwhelming.
Tweens get a bad rap but watching them grow through adolescence, middle school can  be so much better.

I want you to build a foundational relationship with your tween based on mutual trust and respect.

Picture guiding your child to be a confident, independent adult, while nurturing an enriching quality relationship that will grow well into adulthood.

You can raise a resilient, adaptable adult with enduring strengths like problem-solving, compassion, and grit without overwhelm and stress.

There will never be a period in your child’s life after adolescence where they will experience this kind of fast learning and efficiency.

Let’s do middle school together.

Every generation needs to parent differently due to the world growing and changing.

Generation Alpha is in adolescence, growing up in a fast-changing and convenient world.

It’s simpler to connect through phones and social media, but it’s tougher to form real, deep connections, leading to rising anxiety and loneliness.

The pandemic took away a year of learning important social skills for these tweens.

Your parenting should represent your family, and it will look different for each child. This generation needs you more than ever.

Let’s do middle school together.

Generation Alpha are in adolescence. These tweens can learn timeless values with modern parenting.
Generation Alpha is in adolescence. They can learn timeless values with modern parenting.

I’ve worked with students from age 4 to college for decades.

As a principal, I created a middle school from scratch when I saw the need to foster and grow tweens from childhood to adulthood. Middle school is a time most people dread, but research shows us it is when their brains grow the most. We can’t miss this opportunity.

Being a middle school principal, changed my parenting. I became open, honest, and genuine. I learned WITH my kids. I was a woman trying to heal by showing my kids the beautiful mess and process of life.

I wanted them to know how to solve problems, manage emotions, and be independent in their own time. It wasn’t perfect. It still isn’t. We accept that life is beautifully messy.

In my educational career and personal life, I have mentored women through recovering from their eating disorders (after recovering from my own), developed mentoring/social-emotional programs for girls ages 9–18, and coached students and adults in executive functioning worldwide.

I have raised my daughters to be independent women, stepping into the lives they have created.

Let’s do middle school together!

Our relationship is so different.

I thought my daughter and I would grow apart when she was 12, but it was the opposite. We grew closer.
Jen
~Mom of 12-year-old

No judgment.

I had to go first, and it was great to have Nik to bounce conversations off of because I used to lecture and my kids zoned out.
Mary
~Mom of 11-year-old

It is worth your time.

Nik is like that wise person you need in your corner. My kids and I understand each other now. I have the tools.
Anne
~Mom of 14-year-old

If you can book her, get her.

I call her the triple threat because she addresses students, parents, and teachers. We were all laughing and learning.
Jean
PTO President