Essential Tips for Parenting Tweens, Teens, and Beyond with Cindy Muchnick

Once Upon A Food Story

Have you ever felt daunted by parenting in this pressure-laden time? Knowing how to support our kids’ mental health and academic journey as they navigate life in today’s competitive world is no simple feat, especially during their adolescent years.

Often the hardest part is striking a balance between care and concern without micromanaging or helicopter parenting. Sometimes that means allowing our children to make mistakes, which isn’t always easy!

Speaker, educational consultant, and bestselling author, Cindy Muchnick, believes that our “parent compass” can help us find that sweet spot. As a mom of four herself, Cindy is on a mission to educate parents on how to support our children as they go through life with purpose and resilience without putting too much pressure on them.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Ways to pull back and allow your children to self-advocate
• What it means to find your “parent compass” and look back before you look forward
• Why creating a like-minded community of other parents is key
• How to give your kids a voice
• A new definition of family dinner and how to make it meaningful
• The role of tech (and boundaries) in your adolescent’s life
• The one thing you can do to show your children you believe in them

This episode will help you forge a positive relationship with your teens, appreciate the kids you have in front of you (not the ones you want to inauthentically create), and set them up for success beyond the nest!

Tweetables:

“We need to learn—especially as our kids get into the tween and teen years—how to pull back. If we don’t do that, we are actually causing damage. We are adding to the mental health pressures. We are not allowing them to use their own voice and self-advocate.” — @CindyMuchnick [0:05:37]

“Sitting down and having a family meal with your kids is so beneficial. It reduces anxiety, it reduces depression, it reduces teenage pregnancy, it reduces drug use. It’s good for everything! There’s almost nothing bad that can com] from having a family dinner.” — @CindyMuchnick [0:31:32]

“In order to show our kids we believe in them, the best thing we can do is to see them for exactly who they are and the choices that they make and to support those choices, even if they are different from our own.” — @CindyMuchnick [0:47:01]

Resources Mentioned:

24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week

Learn More about Cindy Muchnick:

The Parent Compass

The Parent Compass website

Website: cynthiamuchnick.com

Instagram: @cmuchnick

Twitter: @CindyMuchnick

LinkedIn: @cindymuchnick

Learn More about Elise Museles:

Food Story: Rewrite the Way You, Eat, Think, and Live

Website: elisemuseles.com

Instagram: @elisemuseles

Facebook: @elisemuseles