Resilience: How to Nurture and Develop Your Teen's Inner Self

Teaching teens to own their actions, grades, and life choices is one of the hardest tasks of parenting. In the January 13 seminar, parents learned tools to improve communication with their teens and received practical strategies to help their teens learn to find motivation internally rather than seek external rewards and gratification.

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About the speaker: Debbie Gross is a licensed clinical social worker providing individual, marital & family therapy in the north suburbs. She specializes in working with children and families and also loves working with couples around parenting, marital, communication and intimacy issues. Frequently, she speaks to educators, parents, and community groups on a variety of topics, some of which are bullying, children's self-esteem, and positive discipline and guidance. She began a parenting blog, www.debbietalk.blogspot.com, in May, 2009 after years of providing sound parenting advice to family, friends, and clients. Drawing from her clinical expertise as well as personal experience as mother of twenty-year-old identical twins and a sixteen-year-old, her blogs provide practical tips, humorous anecdotes, and a personal touch to parenting issues from preschool through college. For more information on Debbie, visit her website at www.debbiegrosstherapy.com or email: debbietalk@aol.com or phone: 847-253-5352 x1.