Best parenting advice: Be an expert in raising your own kids
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/best-parenting-advice-expert-raising-kids-article-1.2626491
Pressure to be accepted into elite colleges is crushing our kids
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/pressure-accepted-elite-colleges-crushing-kids-article-1.2622192
The Dangerous Price Of College Admissions KGO Radio Interview
Are we guilty of putting too much pressure on our kids with getting them into the “right” college? There are enough competing demands on them as it is, with them trying to fit into different social groups, their existing grades and hobbies, relationship conflicts outside and within the home and finding time for all of…
What The MarInfamous Teen Party Bus Says About Us
This is an opinion piece I wrote for the local newspaper where I live in Marin County, California. Unfortunately it did not get printed. Instead they ran another article commenting on how we need laws that come down harder on parents who host parties for teens. The week before they ran an opinion piece written…
Podcast: Enhance Your Relationship with Your Teenager
An hour long interview I did for Solo Nation, a website for single parents. The topic is universal about the transitions that go on during the teen years. I hope you find value in it. Click on the image below: http://soloparentmag.com/jeff-leiken
Rational Parenting – Introducing a Radicle New Concept
In the past decade many of the most popular Best Selling books about parenting and raising healthy children, have proffered profoundly important and deep messages. Using a mix of research and empirical observation, illustrated with countless anecdotal case studies, they have taught us repeatedly these breakthrough revelations: • Spoiling kids is bad for them. • Too…
A Different Kind Of Christmas Story
A Different Kind Of Christmas Story As a Chanukah-Man, my memories of Christmas growing up in the Midwest in the 70s and 80s are few and far between. It was always somebody else’s Holiday. But there was one distinct memory that stands out and has stayed with me for 30 years now and comes back…
The 20/80 Rule: A College Freshman Finding His People
Jerrod struggled to find good friends in high school, and had high hopes that college would be different. He’d attended a small private high school where he often felt like the only kid who wasn’t uber-smart, socially savvy and into drinking, smoking and hooking-up. He was not only a “late bloomer” socially, he was also quite conservative…
From Teen To Young Adult: Three Questions, Three Stages
Stage 1: Begins around 12- 13 years old. “I am not a little kid anymore. I’m a teen. Treat me like one.” The driving question: Where and how do I fit in with my peers? At this stage, emerging and young teens do not want to be seen as little kids anymore. They want to be…
The Missing Piece For Older Teens – Live Presentation
The Missing Piece: The Answer To The Driving Question Of Teen Life Wellington College, London: International Conference on Coaching In Education: November 2013