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Peer Pressure: The Power of the Group

Teens are often criticized for not being able to stand up to peer pressure. In my parenting workshops I show parents and teachers how much they, as mature adults, grownups and parents, submit to group pressure. They are usually very shocked to discover how many things they do that do not match their own thoughts and beliefs, and how strong their desire is to be accepted, not judged and not criticized by the people around them.

Being social creatures makes us compromise our thoughts and beliefs to match those of the society we live in. It is in some way a survival mechanism that got out of control. In the beginning, we did it to survive in the group. Later on we have to obey the group if we want to be accepted in.

The power of peer pressure was examined many years ago in a famous study called “Asch’s conformity experiment”. This short video can explain how easy it is conform.

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October 2, 2014 by Ronit Baras In: Parenting, Teens / Teenagers Tags: parent coaching, teen books, society, social, video, teens / teenagers, values, parenting teens, books, stress / pressure, beliefs, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, control, feeling, rules, practical parenting / parents

Be Yourself: Everyone Else is Taken

We all go through a journey to define ourselves and develop our self-identity. Be the person you want to be instead of the person others want you to be.

During a very tough time in my life, I started a search to find out who I was and define my “self”. Much like everyone else, I grew up in a society in which the “self” was a very vague concept that kids never considered. I was 16. I went through a bit of crisis when I discovered that I did not know who “I” was. I needed to find and define “me”, to make the choice to be myself.

The second step of my journey was during the first year of my degree. I was studying psychology with one of the most incredible teachers I have ever met when I realized that self-concept, regardless of when you start defining, is something we all have to figure out. In our very first lesson, the teacher walked into a room full of students and asked, “Who are you?”. It sounded like such a simple questions, but we struggled, big time!

This post is part 1 of 2 in the series Be Yourself

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December 4, 2012 by Ronit Baras In: Personal Development Tags: identity, happiness, practical parenting / parents, motivation, teaching / teachers, Life Coaching, teen books, perception, focus, relaxation, projection, positive, emotional intelligence, acceptance / judgment / tolerance, choice, self confidence / self esteem / self worth, control, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement

Top Parenting Bloggers Discuss (13): Parenting Teens

Parenting teens is considered the most scary period for every parents. I heard endless times the mantra “Wait until your kids become teenagers” and when Eden was young, I did find this warning scary. After all, I had not been an easy teen for my parents (not that I had been an easy kid either).

Yet, the more Eden grew, the more I realized that for my parents, my teen years had been years of reason, success and happiness. While other parents had talked about their kids turning into monsters during their teen years, my parents had found joy parenting me for the first time in, because I had finally done well socially and academically.

This thought made me dedicate a big chunk of my education career to teens and even today, I often deal with parenting teens in my parenting workshops. I even wrote a book for parents, educators and teenagers to bust the myth of “those obnoxious teens”.

I asked our Top Parenting Bloggers what they think about parenting teens. Some of them are parents of teens, other are not yet, but it is interesting to read what they think.

This post is part 13 of 14 in the series Top Parenting Bloggers Discuss

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June 18, 2010 by Ronit Baras In: Parenting, Teens / Teenagers Tags: teens / teenagers, acceptance / judgment / tolerance, communication, behavior / discipline, emotional intelligence, practical parenting / parents, how to, trust, beliefs, teen books, lifestyle, self-fulfilling prophecy

Teen Suicide

Someone very close to us lost her son to teen suicide. Her son was 18 years old, a great kid who took his dad’s gun one day, sat in his parents’ car in a park and shot himself to death.

He is gone and is probably not suffering anymore, but a whole family he left behind is still picking up the pieces of their shattered life and cannot find comfort.

I am writing to you because I pray you never have to be in the same position.

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August 20, 2009 by Ronit Baras In: Parenting, Relationships / Marriage Tags: how to, choice, trust, beliefs, motivation, relationships / marriage, communication, teen books, projection, optimism, emotional intelligence, teens / teenagers, depression, behavior / discipline, suicide, practical parenting / parents

TV Diet (2): Health Concerns

Many studies have been done on the influence of TV on viewers (in fact there have been 4,000 studies on the effect on children alone, which you should not read if you love watching TV). Excessive TV viewing raises concerns in five major areas: Health, Behavior, Outlook on life, Relationship and Education

This post is part 2 of 18 in the series TV Diet

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July 13, 2009 by Ronit Baras In: Health / Wellbeing, Parenting Tags: teens / teenagers, choice, health / wellbeing, eating disorders, practical parenting / parents, teen books, fat, overweight, lifestyle, tv, obesity, diet, kids / children, body image

Hormonal Teenagers (my brutal opinion)

Two weeks ago, I had a session with Ben, one of my clients, who talked about his daughter misbehaving, throwing temper tantrums and being very disrespectful. I think what hit me was when he said, “You know, teens are just hormonal”.

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July 9, 2009 by Ronit Baras In: Parenting, Teens / Teenagers Tags: emotional intelligence, beliefs, divorce, teen books, self-fulfilling prophecy, teens / teenagers, behavior / discipline, practical parenting / parents, focus, projection, responsibility

Confession of an Author

Although my mom could not read properly, my dad read a lot of books. He was a crossword puzzle and word search person and eagerly solved everything in the daily and weekend papers when I was a kid. Most of the books in our home library he won by sending his answers to the newspapers. Inside each one was a sticker saying he had won this book as a first, second or third prize. So you see, for me, books were rewards since before I was able to read.

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March 27, 2009 by Ronit Baras In: Education / Learning, Beautiful people Tags: lifestyle, reading, story, k-12 education, career, education / learning, vision, success, choice, books, teen books

Parents of Teenagers: This is How to Destroy Your Relationship

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As you know, teenagers are very close to my heart. At the age of 16, I decided it was time for people to change their attitude towards teens if they want them to change their attitude towards their life and the adults in their life. Especially parents of teenagers.

I was a bit shocked to realize that the relationship I had with my parents from an early age had led us into constant conflict during my teen years.

Until that point, I thought all teens hated their parents. I thought all parents of teenagers lost their kids’ respect and trust during adolescence. I knew that having these thoughts did not help teenagers or their parents.

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July 21, 2008 by Ronit Baras In: Parenting, Teens / Teenagers, Relationships / Marriage Tags: acceptance / judgment / tolerance, self confidence / self esteem / self worth, practical parenting / parents, communication, projection, relationships / marriage, teen books, conflict, teens / teenagers, stress / pressure

Just Wait Until Your Kids Become Teens

Teen girl's legs in Converse shoes

About 16 years ago, I went to visit a family member, who had her first child at the age of 42. I was very happy for her and traveled for 2 hours to see her precious new baby.

She was so overwhelmed by the 10 days of the “mom experience” she had had – sleepless nights, initial breastfeeding pains and crying – that for about 3 hours, she kept saying to me, “Ronit, just wait until you have a baby. Then you’ll see”, and I just smiled.

You see, motherhood can be hard at first, but when she said that, my own daughter was already 3 years old and I loved every minute of raising her and considered it a lot more rewarding than difficult.

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June 16, 2008 by Ronit Baras In: Parenting, Teens / Teenagers, Relationships / Marriage Tags: school, practical parenting / parents, emotional intelligence, relationships / marriage, teen books, conflict, family matters, law of attraction, k-12 education, kids / children, teens / teenagers, communication, education / learning

14 Ways to Teach Your Kids Resilience

Boy giving thumbs up

As much as we would like to defend our kids from the difficulties in life, from experiencing crisis, change or loss, we cannot! However, we can give our kids the tools to recover from difficult times when those hit.

Many people say to me, “They are just kids. What horrible things can possibly happens to them?”

My answer is, “Let’s not wait to find out”.

For children, what seems like a simple thing might be a horrible problem. We have good friends whose 18-year-old son took a gun and shot himself in the head because he was not accepted to the course he wanted.

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April 8, 2008 by Ronit Baras In: Parenting, Emotional Intelligence, Kids / Children Tags: positive attitude tips, kids / children, teens / teenagers, self confidence / self esteem / self worth, health / wellbeing, focus, practical parenting / parents, success, negative, teen books

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