You will receive:

• 52 short audio skills for raising teens and tweens (and loving it). Audio lessons (usually under 10 minutes) are delivered weekly to your inbox, so that you can listen while driving to work or having your cup of coffee in the morning. 
• 52 weekly activities you can do alone or with your kids to shift the dynamics in your household.
• 52 related resources (articles and white papers) pulled from Kristin MacDermott's evidence-based curriculum that has been validated in four studies and published in peer-reviewed journals.
• An opportunity to join Kristin MacDermott, LMFT, in twice-monthly LIVE office hours, where you can work out all your specific parenting challenges with a licensed marriage and family therapist and resilience expert.  
• Membership for you and your parenting partner in the Resilience-Based Parenting™ portal, which allows you to review all the skills, activities, and resources at your own pace.

We wrote our program with parents of teens and tweens in mind, but plenty of the parents enrolled in Resilience-Based Parenting™ have younger kids (even toddlers). Many of our skills are applicable for parents with kids of all ages, but a few likely will not apply. For instance, if you have an eight-year-old, you probably don't need to navigate drugs and alcohol quite yet!

That said, even these skills will help you get a head start so that you know what you will do well ahead of being faced with challenges. 

And, once you've completed the program in full, you receive lifetime access to the portal, which means that as long as the program exists, you can access all 52 of the skills. So when your kids are teens and tweens, you'll be able to revisit the skills that apply to older children. 

The basic program costs $35/month for twelve months. It includes everything except live office hours with Kristin MacDermott.

The premium plan costs just $50/month for twelve months. You will receive the full course, plus you will be invited twice a month (for twelve months) to join Kristin MacDermott during her live office hours to get your personal questions answered. 

Monthly subscribers can cancel anytime.

But if you think you will love the course (and you will!), we suggest paying for the full program all at once. You'll receive a discount of about 17 percent: The annual price for the basic course is $350 and the premium course is $500.

Resilience-Based Parenting™ opens four times a year: In the spring, summer, fall, and winter. Because we offer live office hours, we limit enrollment so that we can give each participant a  phenomenal experience. 

Be sure to get on our mailing list by completing the form at the top of this page, and you'll be among the first to know when the program is open for enrollment.

In a perfect world, only the most resilient people would be forced to endure the teenage years! Instead, tweens and teens, who are dealing with emotional, physical, social, hormonal, and intellectual changes, are introduced to alcohol, sex, drugs, body consciousness, and academic pressures during their most tenuous years.

As if these obstacles are not hard enough, consider the criticisms, the gossip, and the public humiliation—all of which can unfold at school, in sports, and on social media.

Clearly, resiliency and coping skills are needed in junior and high schools. Students need to know how to mitigate the stress, anxiety, fear, and loneliness. They need to know how to identify their needs and get those needs met. They need to believe in their own inherent value as human beings and in the possibility of bright futures.

Yet our schools are failing to graduate students who are confident in their own abilities, optimistic about their futures, and resilient. Day in and day out, teenagers drag themselves to school where they memorize the elements of the periodic table, conjugate basic verbs in Spanish, and build contraptions to protect eggs from breaking when dropped from five-story buildings, but no time at all is spent on learning basic coping skills.

Far too many teenagers lose all hope before life really begins.

From a young age, rather than exploring and learning to trust their own internal guidance, most children are trained to please everyone else. Instead of looking inward for peace and guidance, they focus most of their time making sure that the outside world likes them. Starting in kindergarten, they are expected to please their teachers. Junior high hits, and most children start worrying about what their friends think. By the time they get to high school, most teenagers also have coaches, admissions counselors, and parents with a seemingly endless supply of expectations to conform and comply, all at a time when they should be exploring their uniqueness.

It is no wonder that so many teens feel confused, resentful, and insecure.

Teens and tweens could and should be taught simple skills for choosing better-feeling thoughts, accessing positive emotions, understanding the relationship between their minds and their bodies, and engaging in behavior that serves them.

If teenagers were taught these skills, they would be far more likely to thrive. They would be happier, and their relationship with their parents would be better. Beyond that, they would have healthy relationships, healthy bodies, and healthy minds. They would trust themselves to make good decisions and be inspired about their futures.

Imagine what would happen if teens—and their parents—could view the teenage years as an exciting time of personal growth and discovery. Children would grow into adults who believed that they deserved to have their own needs met. They would make choices that reflect this belief. They would honor their own happiness and believe they were capable of achieving their grandest dreams.

Resilience in the teenage years would breed resilience throughout adulthood.