Whether you’re feeling emotional, overwhelmed, anxious, motivated, inspired, or invigorated: chances are, there’s a song playing in the back of your mind or on the radio that helps you navigate…
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Help Your Teenager: Bonding, Compassion, and Empathy
Music connects people.We’ve known this for a long time. Whether people are creating or listening to music; music brings people together. That’s why it’s often been said that “music is…
Music and Self Esteem – Helping Your Teenager Build Confidence Using Creative Expression
Raising teenagers is hard. We all remember the grief we gave our parents when we were teens: believing intrinsically that we weren’t nearly as dreadful as society made us out…
Help Your Teenager: Identity Development
[Especially in the Classroom]Most people remember their teenage years as a time of experimentation and a rollercoaster ride of searching for identity. For teenagers, the classroom can be a place…
Help Your Teenager – A Different Approach: Part One
Generation Z is built different, so we need to approach how we support them differently. I’m sure you remember being a teenager. Feeling as if no one understood you. Awkwardly…
How songwriting helps with overwhelm
One of the lessons my teachers taught me in school was the KISS method – the Keep It Simple, Superstar idea that: when writing an essay, you don’t want to…
A Revolutionary New Way to Help your Teenager Learn
We live in a world where we raise our children with the expectation that they will go on to work for someone else: whether it’s for their financial dreams, desire…
How to Homeschool Your High School Teenager
We live in a society where people are still striving for the American Dream, and learning in a high school education system still based on 18th century learning pedagogies. We…
Home Schooling: How Songwriting Helps Teenagers Learn and Cope Better.
Something strange happens when you’re an adolescent who has had brain trauma, and suddenly find yourself going from an all-A student to someone who finds it difficult to remember what…