FREE LIVE TRAINING — WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16th @ 12PM ET

From Walking on Eggshells

to Enjoying Your Teen Again

A Free, Live, Online Training for Parents of Teens

Kristin MacDermott, LMFT

Family Therapist and Parenting Expert

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In this free, 75-minute, live, online training, you'll learn:

How to diagnose what's really going on between you and your teen
The two questions to open honest conversation, even if you haven't had a real one in years
A step-by-step plan for repairing your relationship, starting immediately
Clarity about whether you can do that yourself, or exactly what support you need

Your relationship with your teen won't fix itself.

This is your chance to put the joy back in parenting.

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Watch this before attending the training.

Why watch the video?

The live training is for high-achieving parents: people who are successful in most aspects of their lives, deeply involved in their kids' lives, but still feel like they're failing when it comes to their teenager.

This short (under 10 minute) video explains why high-achieving parents lose connection with their teens and how most parenting advice fails to address this unique parenting challenge.

In this short video, you'll learn:

How high-achieving parents face a unique challenge most parenting advice doesn't address
Why more rules, tighter control, and stricter consequences won't work with your teen
Why doing nothing and hoping things get better on their own is making things much worse
The three mistakes even the most devoted parents make without realizing it
Why the most important thing you can do for your teen's mental health, and their shot at real success and happiness, is repair your relationship with them.

Why attend the training?

If you relate to any of these:

You know there's a problem but you don't know how to fix it.
You've been thinking of getting help, but you don't want to send your teen to therapy or bring everyone to family therapy.
You're hoping it's just "teenager stuff" and will get better on its own.

In this training you'll learn:

How not fixing the problem is hurting your teen.
Why many families don't need long-term therapy and what to do instead.
Why hoping it'll get better on its own is not a strategy that works but that there are things you can do immediately to shift the dynamic and start having a better-feeling relationship with your teen.

If your teenager is a source of worry, friction, or disappointment, not necessarily disappointment in who they are but in how your relationship is, and you had visions of laughing together and sharing inside jokes, this is your chance to reset and start enjoying each other again.

BONUS: Stay until the end of the live training and get my Rules of Engagement, a step-by-step guide for turning any blow-up, with your teen, your spouse, anyone, into a five-minute conversation instead of a week of walking on eggshells. (Free for live attendees only.)

This Free, Live Training is for You if:

You never know which version of your teen you're going to get...

... One day they're fine, the next you're walking on eggshells wondering what will set them off. You're exhausted from managing their moods before you've even said anything. You're ready for calm to be the norm, not the exception.

You're trying to help but your teen hears nagging...

... Your reminders and questions get eye-rolls, annoyed sighs, or silence back. You know your intention isn't landing the way you mean it. You're ready to say the same things in a way they can actually hear.

Your teen is pulling away and it feels personal...

... The disrespect, the silence, the slammed door, it's hard not to read it as rejection. You're starting to wonder if you're losing them for good. You're ready to understand what's actually happening underneath it.

Your teen would rather be anywhere but with you...

... They're out with friends or alone in their room, and when you try to talk, you get “you don't get it.” You've almost given up on getting a real answer out of them. You're ready for one honest conversation, even a short one.

You know you're not perfect, but you can't see what you're doing wrong...

... You're doing your best, yet the tension keeps building anyway. You suspect you're sending signals you don't mean to send. You're ready for someone to show you, gently, what you can't see yourself.

You keep waiting for your teen to be the one who changes...

... You've tried talking, tried consequences, tried giving space, and nothing sticks. Deep down you wonder if the shift actually needs to start with you. You're ready to try that instead.

What Parents Say

"Honestly, “two questions” sounded a little gimmicky to me, but it’s more than two questions. It’s a very specific process for framing and asking the two questions and the thinking behind it goes right to the heart of the friction with my teen. He thinks I nag when I’m trying to help. This process really helped us be nicer to each other."

Christy M.

Mom of 15-year-old boy

"Before I went to the webinar, our 16-year-old son was totally withdrawn from the family. All he wanted to do was be out of the house with his friends or alone in his room. When we tried to get him to engage he just said we don’t get it. I didn’t even think I could get him to have a conversation with me, but the way the two questions are set up, he actually answered honestly. It didn’t solve everything, but it was a really good start."

Alan M.

Dad of 16-your-old boy

"'I give my teen a lot of freedom because my parents were super strict. The webinar made me see the importance of “the Goldilocks Zone” between being too permissive and too controlling. This set up a really great conversation with my 17-year-old daughter."

Samantha B.

Mom of 17-year-old girl

"When Kristin said I shouldn’t read my daughter’s pulling away as rejection, I didn’t understand. I didn’t know how not to take it personally when she’s so disrespectful. But the webinar made me see things from my daughter’s side, and I was able to shift not just how I think about things but how I approach her. She noticed immediately. I was shocked how quickly we were able to have a different kind of conversation."

Kelley H.

Mom of 15-year-old daughter

"I’ve told so many people about this webinar because it really helped me change the way I was showing up with my son, Adam. I thought he was the one who needed to change, but when I changed, he responded really, really well. Definitely stay to the end because we have the Rules of Engagement on our refrigerator now and the whole family uses it. It’s been a game-changer for us."

Chris W.

Dad of 14-year-old son

"Of course I knew the problem wasn’t 100% my daughter, that the way I was handling things wasn’t perfect. But Kristin has a gentle, non-blaming way of helping you see how things you don’t even realize are sending the wrong message to your teen. It seems obvious now but it was eye-opening and Kaylee responded immediately when I stopped doing those things. This was so helpful."

Julie P.

Mom of 15-year-old girl

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My Why

Hi. I’m Kristin MacDermott, and I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist. For more than 25 years, I've worked with an unusually wide range of people: cancer patients and burned-out nurses, military families and first responders, couples, parents, and students in schools ranging from inner city public schools to military academies to elite private schools.

But whether it was a disease, deployment, career or life stressor, my work almost always came back to the same thing: families.

When they function well, families are our greatest source of love, support, resilience and joy. But too often, for a multitude of reasons, some as serious as illness or loss, some as ordinary as raising a teenager, families become our greatest source of pain.

This isn't just theory for me. My three grown children call me almost daily just to share their lives with me, and that is the joy of my life. I've been married to their father for 34 years, and I consider that an accomplishment. Not that he hasn't been an absolute pleasure the whole time (right, honey), but relationships take work. Helping families find their way back to joy is my life's work.

Along the way I learned quite a lot about resilience. My resilience-training curriculum has been validated in multiple studies by researchers at the Duke Clinical Research Institute, published in peer-reviewed journals, and proven to promote clinically significant improvement in distress, anxiety, depression, PTSD, and self-efficacy.

My resilience-training programs have been used by Navy SEALs, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and more than 20 hospitals across the country, and funded by institutions like the National Cancer Institute, Pfizer, and the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

But none of that matters as much as this: In 2018, I decided to bring everything I know about resilience and bonding through difficult times to teen mental health and parenting teens.

This training is built on my mission to put the joy back in families. I hope you will join me.

In this free, 75-minute, live training, you'll discover:

The two questions that are still resetting relationships years after families first ask them, and why asking them beats months of lectures, threats, or consequences (plus exactly how to ask them yourself, this week)
The "Goldilocks Zone" almost no parent has heard of: why more rules and tighter consequences quietly push your teen further away (and the exact shift that opens the door back up)
How to change your relationship with your teen without changing your teen, and why this works better than trying to fix their behavior: the reframe I've used with hundreds of families to turn defiance into connection
A framework for hearing your teen say something kind again, in days, not years: the exact shift Amanda used to go from "my daughter doesn't respect me" to her daughter saying, "You're doing a good job, Mom," after years without a real conversation