How to get your big kid to actually HEAR you
"I just want them to hear me," says every parent of teens and young adults. It may sound sad and lonely, tired and pleading, or ready to...
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Welcome.
Grab a cup of tea and make yourself at home.
May these writings support you on your parenting journey.
Lori K Walters
- May 23
- 6 min
Feel like your Kids have Abandoned You?
Remember when you were 16 and you went to a party? You got ready with your friends and you all agreed that you would stick together no...
Lori K Walters
- May 16
- 5 min
Just when I thought I was becoming less reactive with my young adult child…
It can happen to any of us. We're working on changing how we automatically react to our teenager/ young adult and we feel like we're...
Lori K Walters
- May 9
- 5 min
Meeting the Loneliness of Parenting Young Adults
Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. ~ W.S. Merwin This article is...
Lori K Walters
- May 9
- 5 min
Just when I thought I was becoming less reactive with my young adult child…
It can happen to any of us. We're working on changing how we automatically react to our teenager/ young adult and we feel like we're...
Lori K Walters
- May 2
- 5 min
A sure-fire way to shift a rocky relationship with your teenager
I have a magic wand. Well, er, I have a wand of selenite - a white, striated crystal about 40 cm long - that I’ve worked with for 10...
Lori K Walters
- Apr 25
- 6 min
How can I get my kid to stop doing that?
We’re all familiar with this feeling: you want the young adult in your life to just stop that behaviour already. Part of you thinks that,...
Lori K Walters
- Apr 18
- 4 min
Do Your Kids Outgrow You?
I came across this quote on a parenting website: “They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.” The quote is from author Jodi...
Lori K Walters
- Apr 11
- 5 min
Why I don’t promise to eliminate conflict with your kid
Conflict with our kids is painful. Things are said that are difficult to un-hear. Hearts constrict. Cracks in relationships turn into...
Lori K Walters
- Apr 4
- 5 min
You want to control your teenager because you can't sit with your own discomfort
I know this article might hit hard. Let’s start with the title: You want to control your teenager because you can't sit with your own...
Lori K Walters
- Mar 26
- 4 min
Help! My kids don't respect me.
“Mutual respect is the foundation of genuine harmony.” ~ His Holiness the Dalai Lama Respect your elders. When I was growing up, ‘respect...
Lori K Walters
- Mar 19
- 5 min
Get Yourself Oriented in the beautiful, messy Phases of Change
People change for two reasons: either their minds have been opened or their hearts have been broken. ~ unknown “You know, like snorkeling...
Lori K Walters
- Mar 12
- 4 min
How to Access your Inner Parenting Wisdom
Every parent, at one time or another, wonders if someone else doesn’t know better what to do in a particular parenting situation. I mean,...
Lori K Walters
- Mar 6
- 5 min
Can you really change a belief that’s holding you back?
It breaks my heart when I meet parents who have gone to workshops or worked with a coach and, despite some great insights, nothing really...
Lori K Walters
- Feb 21
- 4 min
When your big kid feels so far away (physically, emotionally, ideologically)
When our kids grow up and they’re in their late teens and early 20s, we can really feel the increasing distance between them and us. It’s...
Lori K Walters
- Feb 13
- 5 min
Are you avoiding the thing that can actually help you change?
"Why do I keep doing the same damn thing?” a parent asked, eyes moist and pleading. “I hate being so suspicious and always expecting the...
Lori K Walters
- Jan 23
- 5 min
How a parent's over-enthusiasm can impact their child
en·thu·si·asm NOUN intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval strong excitement of feeling; zeal or fervor Are you an...
Lori K Walters
- Jan 15
- 5 min
How parents can shift out of over-worry and into more ease
For a few months, I was plagued by a recurring nightmare. I was alone in a canoe, going down a swift river about to plunge over a huge...
Lori K Walters
- Jan 9
- 4 min
How to tell if you are repeating an inherited a parenting pattern
There’s a lot of talk these days about ancestral trauma and intergenerational healing. We know that, if our grandparents experienced war,...
Lori K Walters
- Dec 31
- 4 min
How can I be more present with my teenager?
"How can I be present to my teenager when I’ve got a hundred other things on my mind?" That’s exactly what my overwhelmed client asked....
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