#FeatureStory: From constant fighting to being the confidant

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Jan 20 (edited) • Communities

I used to be in a home with slammed doors, yelling and screaming, constant fighting.

It sucked because I felt unloved, unheard, and desperately wished my parents would just listen to me.

But then I realised at my mother's funeral that it didn't have to be that way…

That's when I made a promise to myself, I would never let a child feel the way I felt. I would learn how to actually connect, how to listen, how to build the relationship I never had.

So I spent the next 20+ years doing exactly that, teaching teenagers, studying what makes them open up, and figuring out what my parents got wrong so I could do it differently.

Which led me to building incredible relationships with my own kids and every teenager I've taught - kids who actually WANT to talk to me about the hard stuff.

Want to know how I did it? Drop a YES in the comments!

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