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How To Motivate An Unmotivated Teen
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11 minutes • expires 11/08/2026
With Anita Cleare
With Anita Cleare
Practical ways to motivate teenagers without power struggles.
Are you frustrated with trying to galvanise your teen into action? Or worried about their lack of effort at school? Trying to motivate an unmotivated teenager through nagging or criticism seldom works. So, what does help? This short video outlines how parents can collaborate with teens to set up positive habits, hold them accountable for their actions and use positive reinforcement rather than threats.
More from Anita Cleare: Tools For Reframing Children's Worries (2 mins), Using Rewards (With Children) (2 mins) and Teaching Siblings To Resolve Conflict (2 mins).
Are you frustrated with trying to galvanise your teen into action? Or worried about their lack of effort at school? Trying to motivate an unmotivated teenager through nagging or criticism seldom works. So, what does help? This short video outlines how parents can collaborate with teens to set up positive habits, hold them accountable for their actions and use positive reinforcement rather than threats.
More from Anita Cleare: Tools For Reframing Children's Worries (2 mins), Using Rewards (With Children) (2 mins) and Teaching Siblings To Resolve Conflict (2 mins).
About Anita Cleare:
Anita Cleare MA Adv.Dip (Child Development) is a parenting speaker, writer and coach who supports working parents to balance successful careers with being a parent. She co-founded the Positive Parenting Project in 2012 with the aim of helping parents cut through the fads and fashions of parenting advice and focus on how modern parents can apply evidence-based approaches in ways that work. Anita has a talent for helping parents step back and reflect on parent-child dynamics. Her book ‘The Work/Parent Switch’ outlines how working parents can use the bits of time left over when work is done to parent smartly and implement small changes that can make a big difference. She also writes the award-nominated parenting blog ‘Thinking Parenting’.
Anita Cleare MA Adv.Dip (Child Development) is a parenting speaker, writer and coach who supports working parents to balance successful careers with being a parent. She co-founded the Positive Parenting Project in 2012 with the aim of helping parents cut through the fads and fashions of parenting advice and focus on how modern parents can apply evidence-based approaches in ways that work. Anita has a talent for helping parents step back and reflect on parent-child dynamics. Her book ‘The Work/Parent Switch’ outlines how working parents can use the bits of time left over when work is done to parent smartly and implement small changes that can make a big difference. She also writes the award-nominated parenting blog ‘Thinking Parenting’.