Embracing Defiance 52 Week Parenting Study Course Monthly
Helping Your Child Express Their UNIQUE Voice while Keeping YOUR Sanity
Course Summary
Do your teen’s attitudes, words and behaviors aggravate you?
Do you wish they could be more compliant and do what you say?
Do you wish you wouldn’t worry so much about their choices and their future?
Dr. Beth offers a 52-week course that specifically addresses these challenges and desires.
As human beings – from children to adults – our deepest desire is to feel understood, respected, and valued for who we are and not by how others expect us to be. This situation holds especially true for teens who often feel pressured by their parents’ expectations and their peers’ demands. Sensing that they have no say, teens resort to being defiant and “acting out.”
The fact is, 21st century teens have daily pressures that most adults could not handle. And parents are largely unaware of how to support their children as they struggle to deal with their own daily mental barrage of modern life. Their teens’ behaviors isn’t just a “passing phase” and won’t just “go away” if it’s ignored or simply “tolerated” by parents.
In the course “Embracing Defiance: Helping Your Child Express Their UNIQUE VOICE While Keeping YOUR SANITY,” Dr. Beth teaches parents the benefits of defiant behavior – embracing it rather than resisting it. Discovering and expressing one’s “unique voice” is crucial for healthy psychological and emotional development of both teens and adults alike. This course will offer you ways to help your child find and use their unique voice, so they don’t have to “act out” – and so you won’t always be stressed out.
Through personal stories, easy-to-follow exercises, and real-world examples, Dr. Beth offers the insights and information you need to understand your child’s defiance as well as your own, showing you where it comes from and what you can do about it. That way, you can break out of toxic patterns and maintain open lines of communication between yourself and your child throughout the challenging teen years… and for a lifetime.
Dr. Beth introduces you to the “Inner Family” and explains how and why it continues to shape and influence our lives. This powerful course provides practical tools – including Dr. Beth’s 10 Keys to Compassionate Parenting – to navigate the emotional challenges we all face and create transformation through compassion, understanding, playfulness, and love.
The teen years are critically important and exciting opportunities for growth. When parents and teens use the right communication skills, mindset, and practices, the teen years become a time when building healthy life skills and decision-making skills support healthy attitudes and behaviors that will serve parents and teens for the rest of their lives.
Course Curriculum
Beth Halbert
Dr. Beth Halbert, a.k.a. DrBeth known as “America’s Teenologist”, has a 30+ year history working as a psychologist, corporate trainer, keynote speaker, executive coach, educator and consultant for family-owned businesses and Fortune 500 companies. She has a thriving private clinical psychology practice, facilitates national workshops for parents and teens, and delivers highly educational and extremely entertaining keynote presentations.
As a licensed child psychologist and expert with teens, parents, teachers, health professionals, and others, DrBeth has worked with thousands of families and “first responders” to create stronger parent-teen bonds. She takes a unique approach to helping families overcome the difficulties of adolescence, combining proven clinical practices with warmth, playfulness, self-expression, love, and compassion.
DrBeth fully understands human behavior, relational dynamics and “inner family” dynamics (including our inner three-year-old’s, our inner seven-year-old’s, and our inner teens). She works closely and compassionately with people of all ages, supporting them to appreciate themselves, engage in positive dialogue with others, and develop healthy, connected, loving relationships in especially challenging, dysfunctional situations.
DrBeth has a BA in Psychology, a MEd in Human Resource Development, and a PsyD in Clinical Psychology. She is the author of the award-winning book Embracing Defiance: Helping Your Child Find Their Unique Voice While Keeping Your Sanity, which helps parents understand and appreciate the value of healthy defiance, and is the writer, singer and producer of multiple children-and-parent music CDs.
Embracing Defiance has been a life changer for my family. This is not just a book; it's a roadmap that helps parents understand their kids in a way that they never even imagined. I read it so that I could better understand my nephews who were acting out, and then I gave it to my sister so she could read it. She was amazed at how Dr. Halbert described the "inner-child" conversations she would have within herself when her kids were acting up, and why her kids reacted the way they did when she would try and punish them. It completely changed how she interacted with her kids. I was so impressed with this book and the changes it made in my sister's household, that I gave it to a number of friends so they could benefit from it as well. Buy this book for your family, you'll be so glad you did!
Easy reading with a touch of humor which is what we all need during the stressful time raising a teen with an attitude. Dr. Beth makes sense. Of a time that is hard to understand....her writing is easy to understand and helps you not personalize the teen's behavior!!!!! I have recommended this book to many of my clients that needed the help and understanding Dr Beth brings to the table........bravo, essential book to read before your child reaches teens because it helps you retain your sanity!!!!!!
