Empower young minds, build resilience and foster positive behaviors.
Set up your child for success in their personal and academic life. Neuroscience-based coaching techniques that help young people regulate emotions and take control.
Navigating childhood in a fast-changing world. The challenges facing today’s youth.
Adolescence is a formative stage of life where a child navigates enormous physical, emotional, and social changes, while they explore their identity and try to make sense of the world around them. This is a time of wonderful and creative discovery, forming deep connections and becoming your own person. It is also a time where numerous risks become noticeable like peer group pressure, sensation-seeking behaviors, low self-esteem and negative self-thoughts. For many, life can be confusing and isolating, which is often compounded by the effects of social media. Stressors like bullying, parental divorce, academic pressure and social isolation further increase vulnerability to emotional disorders like anxiety and depression.
Is your child suffering with any of these common challenges?
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Social exclusion
• Being left out of social events
• Being bullied or harassed
• Feeling like an outsider in their social group
• Having difficulty making friends.
2
Perfectionism
• Setting unrealistic goals
• Focusing on flaws rather than strengths
• Criticizing themselves constantly
• Feeling overwhelmed by pressure to excel
• Difficulty in trying new things in fear of making mistakes
3
Risk-taking behaviors
• Engaging in harmful activities to fit in with peers
• Experimenting with drugs / alcohol
• Doing risky things that can lead to physical or emotional harm
4
Body image concerns and low self-esteem
• Feeling self-conscious about appearance or weight
• Comparing themselves to others on social media
• Difficulty finding clothes that fit or feel comfortable
• Not wanting to socialize or go out
5
Academic pressure and stress
• Feeling overwhelmed by schoolwork and deadlines
• Feeling like they are not meeting expectations
• Procrastination or difficulty with time management
• Feeling like they are not as intelligent as peers
6
Bullying and cyberbullying
• Being targeted by bullies online or in person
• Feeling helpless or unable to stop bullying behavior
• Having difficulty talking to adults about bullying experiences
• Blaming oneself for the bullying
7
Fear of not being good enough
• Feeling like they don't measure up to peers or siblings
• Experiencing difficulty with self-compassion
• Feeling like mistakes are a reflection of their worth
• Feeling like they don’t have what it takes to meet their goals
8
Performance Anxiety
• Freezing before a game, speech, event or exam
• Experiencing difficulty breathing, racing heart, sweating, trembling
• Feeling like they will fail, be humiliated or let people down
• Predicting negative outcomes
How Emotion Regulation Coaching Can Help Your Child
• Promotes critical thinking skills through learning to reframe a situation
• Teaches emotions in the context of their developing brain
• Helps minimize detrimental risky behaviors while learning to take healthy risks
• Helps express emotions in a constructive way by finding creative outlets for their feelings
• Helps your child create boundaries and negotiate their needs without emotional outbursts
• Allows your child to moderate fearful situations so they can perform to the best of their ability
• Helps your child discover their character strengths and learn self-esteem
• Teaches your child to be present in the moment through mindfulness
• Teaches your child the beneficial effects of gratitude
If your teenager could benefit from improved emotional regulation or guidance in achieving their goals, coaching may help them become more resilient and cultivate a stronger foundation for adulthood.
What can we do as parents?
At RYM, our individualized and empathetic approach inspires teens to speak honestly and freely, allowing them to fully benefit from the coaching.
