Middle School Mayhem
Welcome to Middle School Mayhem™ with Tamara Braxton, M.Ed., educator, behavior strategist, and your Mommy Mentor! We're making sense of the terribly terrific tween and teen years with real conversations, relatable parenting experiences, and research-backed strategies you can actually use. From power struggles and emotional outbursts to communication and connection, we're helping you understand adolescent behavior, change the interaction, and strengthen your family. Because Parenting... Doesn't Come With a Pamphlet.
Episodes
Had a blowup with your middle schooler and now you're wondering, "Okay... what next?"
The yelling has stopped. Everybody's gone to their separate corners. The house is quiet again, but things still feel a little weird.
Maybe you know you didn't handle everything the way you wanted to. But you ALSO know your child was still dead wrong!
So what do you do?
Do you apologize? Wait for them to apologize? Pretend nothing happened? And if you ...
How do you end a power struggle with your middle schooler WITHOUT giving in?
You stop participating in the argument without changing the expectation.
Because ending the power struggle and giving up the boundary are NOT the same thing.
Ever find yourself explaining the same rule over and over, defending a decision you've already made, or going back and forth with your middle schooler long after the conversation stopped being productiv...
Your middle schooler can disagree with you AND still respect you.
"I don't agree."
"That's not fair."
"I don't like that rule."
Sound familiar?
When your middle schooler starts expressing opinions that don't line up with yours, it can feel like they're challenging your authority.
But here's the thing: Disagreement, disrespect, and defiance are NOT the same thing.
And when we treat them like they are, we can turn an ordinary disagr...
Your middle schooler may start the argument… but are YOU accidentally helping keep it going?
Sometimes we're so focused on getting our child to stop arguing that we don't notice what we're bringing into the interaction.
In this episode of Middle School Mayhem™, we're turning the mirror around. Not to blame parents, but to recognize the behaviors that may be keeping the argument going.
Because here's the thing: You can't contro...
Do you and your middle schooler keep having the SAME argument… just about different things?
One day it’s the phone. The next day it’s homework. Then chores. Then that funky, stinky room. 😩
The subject changes, but somehow the argument feels exactly the same.
In this episode of Middle School Mayhem™, we're looking beyond what you're arguing about to uncover the interaction patterns that keep you and your teen having...
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