Help your teen without
losing the relationship.

A practical pathway to healthy digital habits, clearer boundaries, and a stronger connection with your middle schooler.

October 8 workshop ↗

Meet the six practices ↗

With Wendy Cleary, LCSW-R · Psychotherapist & parent consultant

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A PLACE TO BEGIN

Understanding the pattern.

When the same conflict keeps happening

Middle school brings more independence, more peer influence, and more decisions online. This is a useful time to build habits and agreements that can grow with your child.

Every limit turns into a fight.

Your child shuts down when you bring it up.

You and your partner disagree about what to do.

We can look at the pattern together and find a more useful way to respond.

NEXT LIVE WORKSHOP

A practical place to start.

October 8

Thursday · 7:30–8:45 PM ET Online, live on Zoom

Stop the Phone Fights Without Losing the Relationship

A 75-minute workshop on responding intentionally, reconnecting before correction, and beginning a clearer conversation about boundaries.

Workshop details ↗

PRESENT PARENTING

Six practices to return to.

Six essential parenting practices for healthy digital habits.

Healthy digital habits take practice, for parents and children. Begin by steadying yourself, then return to these practices as your child’s needs change.

Explore the full approach ↗

01 Regulate First Notice your own response and choose how to begin the conversation. ↗

02 See Clearly Separate what you observe from what you fear might be happening. ↗

03 Reconnect Before You Correct Understand your child’s experience before asking for change. ↗

04 Set Boundaries That Stick Make written agreements that protect health, safety, learning, and connection. ↗

05 Release and Trust Expand freedom and privacy as your child develops judgment. ↗

06 Teach Discernment Help your child make thoughtful choices when you are not there. ↗

MEET WENDY

Clinical experience. A parent’s perspective.

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Clinical experience applied to parenting

I bring more than 25 years of clinical work with trauma, addiction, and relationships to the everyday questions of parenting.

I also raised a son through the arrival of smartphones and social media. My work helps parents understand what is happening beneath a recurring conflict and decide what to do next.

More about Wendy ↗

LCSW-R · EMDR & Imago training

WORKING TOGETHER

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