I would really love your feedback on a situation going on in our home right now and if and if I'm wrong to insist on meeting obligations and expectations in the creative arts. My fifteen-year-old went from being our sweet, compliant, easy-going kid to one who...

Navigating feelings of regret with your creative artist - your own and your teens - may be a challenge we face as parents of teens in the creative arts.   Parents Questioning Choices For parents, there may be an internal pressure to get it all right. That we need...

When you have an artistically driven teen, whether they love the creative or performing arts, it always seems that several times a year, a perfect storm of multiple obligations hits the calendar at one time. Surviving the busy season with your artistic team can be a...

  “High school has not been a good match for my kid,” this mom said to me as she sat down with her coffee.   She looked wary. Tired. A mutual friend had made the introduction and suggested I might be a good person for her to talk to about her confusion and...

  It’s somewhat inevitable. In the process of supporting your teen artist, somewhere along the line (or many somewheres), you will hear a comment similar to “I’m not as good as that other person. They are amazing.” Combating comparison in teen artists is one of...