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What To Do Now So They Are Ready Then This morning I received a NY Times email update featuring an…
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What To Do Now So They Are Ready Then This morning I received a NY Times email update featuring an…
Alarming Trend With College Boys There is a deeply concerning experience that too many college students – particularly boys –…
Advice to A Nervous Guy About Asking Out A Girl: A 16 year old boy reached out to me today…
Boys vs Social Justice, Schools, Simping and Cynicism: It’s Time To Address The Elephant(s) In The Room: Many teen…
Fundamental #6: The Need To Express and Enforce Boundaries Fundamental #7: Take Responsibility For Your Life – Personal Power Fundamental…
Fundamentals #1: The Excitatory Bias vs What Everyone Else Does Fundamentals #2: What’s About You vs What’s About…
Always the Smartest One In The Room Occasionally but not infrequently enough, I come across the Person Who Is Always…
We spend insane amounts of time, money and energy getting kids into college, and no where near enough preparing them…
Psychotherapy or Evolution Mentoring: Receiving Psychological Treatment vs. Learning and Adopting a Different Way of Life I’ve had several…
If you are the parent of a teen who over-thinks, over-worries and makes themselves anxious, this is for you! Does…
No one knows what it’s like to be THAT parent of THAT kid, until you are That Parent When you…
COLLEGE IN THE CORNFIELDS – A MOMENT OF RAGE I had a chance encounter the other day with a high…
Why Are So Many College Freshman Trying To Keep Their High School Relationship Going? As a parent, you probably knew…
In my practice, I receive inquiries from two types of parents: Those who it pains and saddens to watch their kids struggling…
Own Your Cool ™ Dedicated to all those people who have dumbed themselves down, sold themselves short, gotten discouraged and/or…
Many people seeking advice on their future career or college admissions seek a career counselor or life coach to help…
23 year old Mark and I sat across from one another at a cool alternative cafe near his college campus yesterday. When I…
DO NOT BUY YOUR TEEN SON A VIDEO GAME MACHINE OR GIVE HIM COMPUTER ACCESS IN HIS ROOM IF HE…
This blog posting shows real “screen shots” of text messages that were sent to me just in the last few days. I…
I received a call today from a college student client who was concerned about something going on in his relationship with his…
I remember the first time a perfectly healthy 17 year old boy told me he was concerned he suffered from…
Insecurity is directly linked to three things: How dependent a person is upon the approval and opinions of others for…
As a teen counselor the relationship I develop with a young person can carry on through time, and I am…
According to Laura Padilla-Walker, BYU university professor and associate director of the school of Family Life, there are four main…
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Are we guilty of putting too much pressure on our kids with getting them into the “right” college? There are…
This is an opinion piece I wrote for the local newspaper where I live in Marin County, California. Unfortunately it…
An hour long interview I did for Solo Nation, a website for single parents. The topic is universal about the…
In the past decade many of the most popular Best Selling books about parenting and raising healthy children, have proffered profoundly…
A Different Kind Of Christmas Story As a Chanukah-Man, my memories of Christmas growing up in the Midwest in the…
Jerrod struggled to find good friends in high school, and had high hopes that college would be different. He’d attended…
Stage 1: Begins around 12- 13 years old. “I am not a little kid anymore. I’m a teen. Treat me like…
The Missing Piece: The Answer To The Driving Question Of Teen Life Wellington College, London: International Conference on Coaching In Education:…
I had dinner with 18 year old Mark last night. I gave him a challenge at the end of the…
The conditioning to only be able to focus and pay attention to something or someone who is exciting and stimulating,…
This is a story about how an insult I gave a Sorority girl and challenge I offered over a sushi…
Most Teens Struggle Through This Life Stage – But Why? And What Can Help? For years I’ve been claiming that…
This posting was inspired after watching Lance Armstrong’s interview with Oprah. As a blanket policy, I do not make my…
I was asked by several folks to respond to the recent article about an upcoming book that claims French parents…
Train Your Teen To Make Decisions Like Steve Jobs When Steve Jobs died this past week, the youtube video of…
Lashon Hara: A Jewish Law that prohibits the use of true speech for a wrongful purpose. As Joseph Telushkin describes…
The Number 1 reason most teens start drinking is surprisingly simple! If you effectively address this issue, you will resolve…
The are cases where therapeutic treatment is invaluable. More often than not though, with teens in particular, they struggle with…
The Lady Who Talked Too Much & Shut Me Up I flew to Atlanta Friday to participate in a ritual…
IThis is a response to an article that I posted a link to on my facebook business page “Why geeks…
Why The Good Men Are Fighting Back Men have gotten a extremely bad rap in the last decade. I’m not…
Periodically but not infrequently, I get emails from other practitioners who find my site and want to collaborate or train…
I have had an enormous response to the email I sent out earlier this week, announcing the Intentional Awareness Training,…
Jeffrey Leiken, MA Evolution Mentoring International A Tribute To Moms – Mother’s Day 2011 Today is Mother’s Day. I…
I hesitated on whether or not to write this post. Then something happened yesterday that inspired me to write this…
Help Save Our Kids From The “Find Your Passion” Dilemma For over a decade now, Passion is in Fashion. Similar to…
Introducing Girls To The Wonderful World Without Disney Half of the clients in my Mentoring practice are teen girls and…
Here is the link to a recent talk I participated in for parents in Marin county, sponsored by the Osher…
This is a newsletter I sent out a year ago. The issue is even more prevalent now, and it will…
The Boston Globe recently ran a story about research that shows how young people have less empathy now than they…
A Peek Inside The Mind Of A Bully I’ve spent 25 years working with teens and young adults, helping them…
Boyhood In Peril – The Battle To Raise Healthy, Thriving Boys Into Men in A Chaotic World Much has been…
Being a teenager is enough to make you puke The following is a true story, with name changes to protect…
Dear Facebook Friend: Now that we are officially linked on Facebook, let me tell you my policy regarding what this…
I stopped by Babies’R Us last night to pick up a few items for my daughter. While checking out the…
The other day one of clients who is a senior in high school, looked me dead in the eye and…
Jake’s tears welled up in his eyes about 11:30pm last night. He was a fifteen year old boy at a…
There is an unspoken agreement in our home that I do the dishes. It works out this way about 90%…
The following is a newsletter I recently wrote for the HeroPath For Teens™ Program that I run in the UK. Though…
Four Guys Had Lunch Today I had lunch today with three 18 year old graduating high school seniors. It has…
This page is filled with links to articles I’ve published in Camping Magazine. Including my Award Winning series on 13…
Bringing Out The Best In 8th Grade Girls © Likone Corp 2005 There is arguably no more challenging, unsettling life…
Do you remember “Little Johnny”? He starred in the stories about the boy who always got in trouble. Well let…
Exploring Emotional Maturity ** Through the lens of Mentor Counseling® ** Research shows that the average American operates intellectually at the…
Over the past month and a half I prepared and presented a series of programs on the specifics of how…
The statistics on boys in education and mental illness diagnosis are staggering – achievement in school has steadily declined over…
How 21st Century Advances Create 21st Century Troubles For Youth – What you should know and what you can do about…
The 2006 UNICEF Report found the United States ranked 20th out of 21 for the lives and well-being of children…
An ongoing UCLA research of ‘wired homes’ (homes where everyone has internet and computers) found that these families are spending…
This model of work is based on the premise that what causes struggles for most adolescents is NOT that they…
Whose Rules Are Your Sons Following? What passes for being “the man” today is an insult to the legacy of…
MEAN GIRLS – THE ONLY WAY TO BEAT THEM IS TO OUTSMART THEM! One of my biggest contentions with the…
On October 1st I’ll have lived in my current place 20 years. In January it will be 22 years I’ve…
There is a core philosophical dilemma that today’s parents face, and it is in serious ways, the most significant dilemma…
Jess got up to get something off of Allison’s desk and couldn’t believe her eyes. There scratched into the margins…