Why sign your child up for teen coaching?

With so many teen activities/ programs offered during the summer, it can be a difficult choice when deciding where to sign up your child. Do you pick a physical activity so that your teen gets some exercise, perhaps something creative to nurture his or her natural talent, or a sleepover camp program to build his or her independence? All these great options make it tougher for you to choose the option that would best benefit your child.

While most programs have strong points, teen coaching offers a number of unique benefits that combine the advantages of other programs and can plant seeds for future success. Teen coaching can teach teens how to address various age-related challenges and how to deal with new circumstances as they mature.

During the adolescent years, teens’ biggest challenge is to discover their identity and to figure out where they best fit in. By opening the lines of communication with your child, a teen coach can help him or her discover who they are, what their values are, and to be proud of their natural talents and skills. This process of nurturing your teens’ natural skills and abilities can increase teens’ self-esteem, self-respect, and self-love. These are necessary components for strong leadership, independence, and success. When an individual is confident in whom they are and proud of their strengths and abilities, it encourages them to take positive risks to maximize on presented opportunities.

An expert teen coach understands typical teen behaviour and can offer solutions for more positive actions. While working with a teen mentor adolescents can address their negative thoughts and false beliefs acquired from observation or personal experience that can contribute to a lack of success. By correcting these false beliefs with self-serving ones, coaches can help teens grow into happy and loving adults who make positive life choices. Individuals who are happy with and confident in who they are naturally motivated to live a full life. They are bound to enjoy more accomplishments and success in all areas of their lives as they make choices that are congruent with their values and identity. A teen coach can help your teen be the best person possible.

Teen coaches also spend time addressing teens’ goals, where the teen is currently positioned with respect to achieving those goals, and coaches advise teens on how to increase their level of achievement. Teen coaches inspire clients to stay motivated when setbacks, obstacles or temporary failures cloud their judgement and decrease their determination to achieve their objectives.

The role of the teen coach is to be a catalyst between the client and his or her objective. Instead of telling teens how to achieve goals, coaches teach them how to make the best choices to increase the possibility of success. Lessons learned during teen coaching in one area of life can be used and applied in other areas of life.

Ivana Pejakovic, Life Coach in Toronto


Teens are a very special part of our society. They are our tomorrow! Today, it is up to us to inspire them to be all that they can be!