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20 Strategies to reach the difficult young adults in your life

Adults should stop talking to teenagers and start talking with them. Remember, you were one once a teenAGER too.

Let's open our hearts AND MINDS and remember that these "children" are going to replace you and me. They are therefore not the enemy. In fact ... we might be. Let's stop fighting them and ourselves ...

20 Steps Up includes

  • A different approach to communication with your teenage learner.
  • How to use PRIVACY as a lever
  • Normalizing Silence

This SHORT e-book comprises only 20 pages that are consumable within a few minutes but it packs a big punch - it represents the very best work done by scientists, researchers and caring educators over THREE decades.

If I could have my way, the 20 steps in this small booklet should be shared with every adult in this world.

This information can change the world - if only it was implemented.

20 Steps Up will

  • empower parents to reconnect with their children
  • train teachers to calm their classrooms down
  • force leaders to spend more time training staff who deal with young people
  • Create
  • This information is priceless - literally - please share it for free with whomever you feel will benefit from it.
  • It is the absolute best in research results placed into a consumable article format.

This material is an introduction to a new series of digital resources for adults dealing with troubled and challenged teenagers.

My name is Lourens Breytenbach. I've been a teacher for thirty years. My mission is to give back some of what I have learned to the learners, teachers and parents.

The idea with this little project is to talk about the secrets of dealing with teenagers and to help our parents and teachers to remember that talking to teenagers is not really that hard, it's just a skill set that you need to learn.

Let us see if we can figure this our together!

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