by Teen Savvy Coaching | Oct 12, 2026 | Parenting
Most of us enter parenthood with some version of a plan. We want to carry forward the things our parents did well and change the things that hurt, confused, or disappointed us. Then we find ourselves in an actual parenting moment, with an actual teenager, and discover...
by Teen Savvy Coaching | Oct 5, 2026 | Friendship, Parenting
There are few things that activate our parenting instincts faster than seeing our child rejected. They weren’t invited to the party. Their friend group suddenly stopped including them. Their best friend isn’t speaking to them. Or their boyfriend or...
by Teen Savvy Coaching | Sep 28, 2026 | Health and Wellness, Parenting
When parents imagine depression, we often picture the obvious signs: a teenager who seems deeply sad, cries frequently, stays in bed, or withdraws from everyone around them. But teen depression doesn’t always look like that. Sometimes it looks like anger,...
by Teen Savvy Coaching | Sep 21, 2026 | Parenting
When your child tells you something important about who they are, there’s a good chance they’ve been thinking about it much longer than you have. That’s especially true when a child comes out as gay, transgender, nonbinary, questioning, or any other...
by Teen Savvy Coaching | Sep 14, 2026 | Parenting
As parents, we want our kids to feel confident. So we encourage them. We tell them we’re proud of them. We remind them that they’re smart, capable, talented, funny, strong, and all the other things we genuinely see in them. But there’s an uncomfortable truth about...