Isla Reddin is an Educator, Certified Coach and Parent-Teen Mentor who helps parents move from conflict and shutdown to trust, connection, and real conversations at home. She supports busy, high-achieving parents of tweens and teens who feel stuck in one-word answers, eye rolls, and constant tension — and want a relationship that feels warm again.
Isla blends neuroscience-informed insight with practical, in-the-moment tools that help parents lower defensiveness, build respect, and guide their teen toward better choices without nagging, lecturing, or power struggles. Her work is grounded in one belief: teens aren’t problems to be fixed — they’re people to be understood, and a connected relationship is the foundation for confidence, wellbeing, and a strong launch into adulthood.
Presentations
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Think of the caterpillar becoming a butterfly: the chrysalis phase, when the caterpillar transforms to take a new form has many similarities to the child becoming an adult in the teenage years. Parents need to learn about the transformation and adapt their parenting strategies to support our teens and ourselves. Spoiler alert! You, the parent are the one who changes your expectations and strategies. The goal of the teenage years is not to make us crazy, but rather to foster a huge change in brain chemistry and wiring in preparation for life as a confident and competent adult.
Attendees will learn:
- The teenage years have as much development as 0-7 but we just can't see it; why does this matter?
- The brain is at its most creative and capable during these years - how to support this opportunity?
- Are we expecting too much or not enough of our teenagers?
- Why some things teenagers do are mind-numbingly strange
- How understanding brain development creates connection and deeper communication with your teen and completely changes your relationship.
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