You didn’t think parenting could be this hard, did you?

Perhaps it feels a little like watching them ride a roller coaster feeling pretty sure the harness will unlatch at any moment. It is scary.

But it doesn’t have to be.

Parenting a teen daughter is a magical dance between mothering and releasing.

It is the action of providing an architecture of safety and trust for your daughter to experience, experiment and grow into a confident authentic woman.

We are modeling the women our daughters will become.

They will not do as we say.

They will do as we do.

Parenting teenage daughters requires that be conscious of this. It requires that we release the conditioning of our own childhood that is not useful. It requires that we know ourselves, love ourselves and most importantly, can regulate ourselves in times of high stress.