Pivot Parenting: Expert Tips for Navigating Teen and Tween Challenges

Does it feel like your teen has a knack for dodging responsibility? Whether they're blaming siblings, friends, or even you for their mistakes, it can leave you frustrated, concerned, and questioning if they'll ever learn accountability. The blame game can trigger fears about their future, making you wonder if you're raising someone who won't grow into a responsible adult.

In this episode, we uncover why teens deflect responsibility and how parents can respond in ways that foster growth and emotional maturity. Learn actionable strategies to teach your teen the value of accountability without nagging, lecturing, or constant conflict.

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When our kids know who they are, independent from accomplishment, others opinions, and other external details, they have more confidence, happiness and success. So how do we help them work this out during the typically hardest 'identity' years they'll have? Listen in as Traci and I go over all the details you need to know!

To learn more about parenting your teen, please visit me at heatherfrazier.com

About my guest: Traci Peterson is an international speaker, highly sought after trainer, has spoken to over 23,000 people, performed in front of 100,000 in sports audiences. She's been a board-certified family nurse practitioner, founder/CEO of Elevate Wellness & Aesthetics, she's treated over 6,000 female patients, is co-founder of The Butterfly Campaign and the #1 Top Team Builder in 50 Countries with Amare, for outstanding leadership and long-term team retention. Her latest project is BE: A Mother Daughter Movement grounded in connection and protection. She cites that her greatest accomplishment is being a mother to 3 very active children!

She prides herself in mastering her roles as a mother, wife and woman of faith and leading by example in all of her leadership roles. With collective medical, wellness, aesthetics and leadership experience of 15+ years, Traci is widely regarded by her male and female peers, patients, clients, entrepreneurs and mom’s alike. She helps high-performing women and their daughters conquer self-criticism and comparison through identifying your unique and divine gifts. And finding validation is learning to love yourself and lean on God. She helps people practically, remember who they are so they can confidently raise the next generation of leaders.

You can find Traci at:

www.tracipeterson.com [email protected] @motherdaughtermovement @tpete

Routine is shown to help manage stress and anxiety, help in productivity and make life feel generally better. Enter, a parents morning routine. Helping teens get out the door each day, fitting in time for ourselves while doing all of the other things on the list can feel daunting. In todays Pivot Parenting episode, I chat with morning routine expert, Ahna Fulmer.

We discuss all of the things: why it can be helpful, how it can work for everyone, when one should begin a routine and everything in between.

To learn more about parenting your teen, and ordering my best seller, How I Fixed my Teen, visit me at heatherfrazier.com

About my Ahna Fulmer: am passionate about helping women Rise Well A dual-certified nurse practitioner with 10 years of emergency medicine experience, I want to empower you with practical, data-driven strategies to rise emotionally, mentally, physically, socially, and spiritually well, fulfilling your God-given purpose with more confidence and joy – one imperfect day at a time.

Whether you join me in the Early Morning HabitTM, a premier virtual program helping busy women rise well with a morning routine that starts each day with God’s Word and a workout while offering hope to a child waiting to be adopted into a forever family, on my top-rated health & fitness podcast, imPERFECTly emPOWERedTM, or on the blog here at ahnafulmer.com, you will be inspired to embrace imperfection as perfectly beautiful and mistakes as part of your unmistakable uniqueness. Because your story matters and YOU ARE LOVED.

Get Ahna's free guide: Busy Woman's Morning Guide

Many parenting issues boil down to one specific struggle: Confidence.

Advocating for our kid, standing up to them, following through with consequences, loving unconditionally, having peace, and so many other things all have this common root struggle. Today, Tony and I discuss the details and help you find more confidence and therefore less struggle and more joy.

To learn more about parenting and order best seller, How I Fixed My Teen, visit me at heatherfrazier.com

About my guest, Tony: So, you may be asking yourself...How did this guy become so interested in Women’s Confidence?

My path to standing here, in front of you right now, is 100% because of my daughter...my amiga...my best buddy...Rachel.

Our story begins when she was about one. That’s when Rachel’s mom and I parted ways and circumstances led to me being a single dad at the age of 27. Here I was raising a daughter on my own.

A daughter...a gender of the human species that I thought I knew about, but in reality, had absolutely no clue! Although I didn’t know it at the time, it was the beginning of ‘girl’s world’ bootcamp for this guy and it changed my life. For the better. That epiphany led me to lean into my passion for helping others through therapy and coaching. I went back to grad school at 30 to get my Psych degree. Then my doctorate.

In 2011, I opened my own counseling and coaching company, which in turn led to the “She Talks Confidence” podcast, YouTube channel (Tony Dufresne, PhD), and the book (Surrounded by Idiots).

My podcast, speaking engagements, and online True Confidence program are labors of love that have come from three decades of success, failure, setbacks, challenges, breakthroughs, and comebacks. Find all things Tony at tonydufresne.com

The holiday season is meant to bring joy, but for many families, it comes with its fair share of stress, strife, and unmet expectations. In this episode, we tackle the emotional and practical challenges of the season head-on. Discover helpful phrasing for navigating touchy conversations and how the timeless Christmas story can provide profound parenting lessons for modern families.

Learn simple yet powerful tools to manage your expectations, reduce stress, and create meaningful, joyful moments—no matter the circumstances. We'll also reveal one top-tier strategy that has the power to transform your holiday experience and help you find joy, even in the most unpredictable of times.

If you're ready to make this holiday season your most peaceful and fulfilling one yet, listen in and start creating memories you'll cherish.

For more personalized guidance, book your Peaceful Parenting Call today. Joy is waiting—you just have to claim it!

About my Guest: Amy Armstrong is a pioneer in the arena of conflict resolution for families, businesses, and schools. She founded of The Center for Family Resolution (CFR) in Columbus, Ohio, and uses coaching to break through entrenched polarization, power imbalances and divisiveness. Her vision expanded to coach education to inspire coaches everywhere to use their coach skills to make a huge impact for Good.