Description

Being a teenager is demanding. Being the parent of a teenager is perhaps even more demanding. And when that teen is pressure sensitive - or demand avoidant - this is even more true.

Low demand parenting looks different for teenagers. They're at a different stage of life, where they are moving from the dependence of childhood to the independence of adulthood. Parents can't make everything okay anymore, and we can't protect them from the growing demands and expectations of the world. Pressure may come just as much from inside them as from the outside, and no matter how low demand we might be as parents, we can't make that go away.

In this brand-new talk, Naomi and Eliza will talk about pressure sensitive teens. They'll talk about what changes during adolescence, and how understanding teenage brain development can help us to empathise with and support our teens. They'll talk about how parenting changes as children become teenagers, and show parents can balance those changes with a low demand (and low pressure) approach.

Illustrated throughout with Eliza's witty and insightful cartoons, this talk is in our trademark down-to-earth and chatty style.

Information

This illustrated talk is available to watch for 1 year after purchase.

Presenters

Dr Naomi Fisher is a clinical psychologist and author of Changing Our Minds: How Children Can Take Control of their Own Learning and A Different Way to Learn, Neurodiversity and Self-Directed Education.

Eliza Fricker is an illustrator and author of The Family Experience of PDA and Can't Not Won't, the Sunday Times Bestseller. She is the mother of an autistic child who has struggled with school attendance.

Together, Naomi and Eliza are the authors of When The Naughty Step Makes Things Worse and The Teenager's Guide to Burnout.