Helping Teens Learn to Cope

Coping with life’s inevitable hardships is key to health and well-being. Learn how to guide your teens to adopt positive ways to deal with stress. When they can cope with challenges in positive ways they will be less likely to turn to quick, dangerous, fixes and will instead be prepared to become their best selves.

Essential Reads

Creating a Stress Management Plan

Mar 17, 2023

Help teens develop a plan to deal with stress.

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Resilient People Save Energy

Aug 19, 2026

Resilient people use less energy because they control how stress affects them by stopping everyday stressors from growing out of proportion.

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Learn How To Get Out of Your Teen’s Way

Aug 19, 2026

Sometimes you need to get out of your teen’s way. This is their life. Their work. Their mistakes and recovery.

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Failure Is a Temporary State

Jul 19, 2026

When your teen makes a mistake, they don’t earn a permanent label of failure. Teach your teen to bounce back by reminding them that this too shall pass while helping them move beyond the mistake.

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How to Know When a Grieving Teen Needs Help

Jun 27, 2026

How do you know when your teen needs more support than you’re currently providing?

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Understand How Your Teen Experiences Peer Pressure

May 15, 2026

Are you trying to understand why your teenager has a hard time saying an emphatic no.

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Your Teen Has Sports Performance Anxiety. Now What?

Sep 27, 2025

Seven strategies to relieve your child’s game-day stress.

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