Ecology of Technology

Parent Support Group

Thursdays July 11th -Aug 15

6:30-8:30 pm

A 6 week group coaching program for conscious parents of teens to support you through relationship building strategies to trust your kids healthy habits with technology and claim your emotional energy for your own creativity, Joy and self-development.

I know what’s its like when your kids are getting to that age where you don’t have as much influence as you once did. You see them spending more and more time on on their phones and computers and you are witnessing the harmful impacts on their mental health and personal development. Maybe you see them developing a diminished capacity to maintain a schedule of consistent meals, an appropriate amount of sleep, nurturing their peer connections and meeting benchmarks in school. Yet when you impose strict limits you can feel how it harms the relationship to be in a power struggle with them. It can seem useless to try to manage it at times, so maybe you give up, hoping that at least for a short time you can have your own mental and emotional energy back to advance your own goals, pleasure and creativity.

Nothing is more important than your relationship with them. You want your kids to come to you with any problem so that you can protect and care for them always. Yet, technology use battles and strict limits are causing your kids to start avoiding you or become sneaky and dishonest. They want to be making their own decisions about their time, and you want them to. After all, you won’t always be there to monitor their self care and manage their time. You are ready for the power struggle to end because…

Your time matters.

It’s exhausting to be managing them and managing yourself and it comes at the cost of your own mental and emotional capacity for self-development and creativity.

So how can you empower them to make healthy decisions around technology use? How can you ensure that they are developing into autonomous adults with the critical thinking and self control required to meet grown up responsibilities? How can you nurture a safe, loving and trusting relationship with them into adulthood? How can you trust they are on a path to autonomy so that you can begin to experience the personal freedom that is the promise of their adulthood?