Tracy Tresidder
M.Ed., PCC
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Professional Parent and Teen Coach Expert
Tracy Tresidder Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Parenting, Teenagers, Family Relationship
- Career Focus
- Coach, Speaker, Presenter, Author
- Affiliation
- Coaching 4 Teenagers - Parent as Coach (Sole Proprietor), International Coach Federation (Member), University of Sydney - Coaching & Mentoring Association (Member), Academy for Family Coach Training-Director Operations & Training Australasia, Association of Coaching and Consulting Professionals on the Web (Member)
Tracy Tresidder MEd, PCC is an ICF professionally certified coach. She was recently named the ICF NSW 2009 Coach of the Year. Tracy specialises in working with parents and teens. Parents - learn how to assist your children to build lives of confidence, courage and compassion. Discover the seven simple steps to create a mutually loving and respectful relationship with your teenager. Go to http://www.coaching4teenagers.com.au"> http://www.coaching4teenagers.com.au to see the programs that are available now. Tracy is also the Director of Professional Standards for ICF Australasia and an ICF Assessor and Mentor Coach. Visit the website to see more of what she has to offer. http://www.tracytresidder.com">Tracy Tresidder Website
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Praise v Encouragement
The problem with praise We praise people, especially children not only to get them to do good work but to encourage them to develop good values and healthy self esteem. However praise is usually focused on the end result not on the quality of the child to achieve that result. E.g. "What a great result you got on that exam" rather tha "wow you worked really hard and put in a great effort to get an excellent result - well done!" This can lead to kids becoming approval junkies. It is a way of using and perpetuating our children's dependence on us.
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Narcissistic, Needy or Normal? What is really going on with my teen's behaviour?
Teens by definition are narcissistic. They are at a time in their life where narcissistic behaviour is both natural and can be healthy. Unless of course you are seeing amoral or criminal behaviour on an ongoing basis.
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Enabling v Empowering
All parents want their kids to feel good about themselves and at the same time develop inner resources so that they can make good responsible choices when you are not around to guide them. The distinction that I would like to draw on in this newsletter is enabling v empowering.
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Alcohol and the Teenage Brain
What the latest research is saying! The Teenage brain is still under construction and with new modern imaging technology scientists can actually view the human brain while it is alive and functioning. Neuroscience can help parents understand the importance of delaying their teens' alcohol ...
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Responsible Risk Taking
Raising resilient teenagers Webster's dictionary defines resilience as "an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change". Teenagers learn to understand the depths of their resourcefulness and resilience through adverse conditions such as failure, disappointment, loneliness, grief and sadness.
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Is Text Messaging Contributing to Teenage Sleep Deprivation
Most kids go to sleep with their phone plugged in right by their heads. Every ping of an incoming message is a temptation to pick up the phone. They know talking on the phone might wake up their parents, but if they text, it probably won't. Teens are famously sleep-deprived already, but experts ...
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What Every Parent Should Know About Alcohol And The Teenage Brain
We hear cases of it all the time. Teenagers, who have been experimenting with alcohol, sometimes have horrendous, harmful consequences both physically and mentally. What many parents may not be aware of is that according to recent studies, your teenager's experimentation with alcohol could also ...
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Teenage Affluenza
Teenage Affluenza Is this an epidemic fuelled by parents? Is life too easy? Life is so easy for too many children; they don't know what it means to work hard to acquire their desires. They ask for and are given just about everything they want far too easily. We are in a generation of excess. ...
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Teenage Sleep Habits
As kids move into the teen years there is a distinct change in their sleeping patterns. As any parent of a teenager knows, trying to wake a sleeping adolescent can be, to put it mildly, difficult. They are often grumpy and monosyllabic until later in the day. It can also be as much of a ...
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Teenagers And Button Pushing: What Is It That Makes You See Red?
Some of my coaching this month has prompted me to explore the button pushing phenomenon with my clients. During this newsletter we will answer the following questions: What is the label on that button on my chest? What is my automatic reaction to it being pushed? What is the result of that ...
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Golf Mind Play: Playing in the Present
How can you eliminate those distracting thoughts that keep popping up in your mind? Achieving an optimal mental state of clarity before each shot involves removing all thoughts of the past and future and focusing on the present task. By clearing the mind of distractions that are unrelated to ...
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Golf Mind Play: When Over-thinking Becomes a Hazard
What makes golf appear so easy when it really is quite challenging? There are few games where you actually hit a stationary ball. Beginners often assume that golf must be an easy game because a carefully contrived formula is used when teeing off, using irons, chipping or putting, as opposed to ...
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Contacting Tracy Tresidder
Tracy can be reached at tracy@coaching4teenagers.com.au or admin@coaching4teenagers.com.au.
Office number is Sydney Australia +61 2 9924-7078 and mobile is + 61 415 980 476