I’ve tried everything. Nothing works.

It’s 7:42am.

You’re already late.
Your teen can’t find their shoes, hasn’t eaten, and is moving like time doesn’t exist.

You feel it in your chest first. And before you even think about it, you’re saying,

“Come on! Why are you always late?!”

And it’s not just mornings.

It’s homework at night.
Phones after dinner.
Chores on the weekend.

Different topics. Same loop.

You can feel it in your body before they even walk into the room.

You remind.
You try to stay calm.
You end up repeating yourself.

And before you know it, you’re explaining, lecturing, correcting, even though you promised yourself you wouldn’t.

And underneath all of it is this quiet thought you don’t say out loud:

Why does it feel like everything I do just makes it worse?

And the hardest part isn’t the arguments.
It’s the quiet fear that you’re losing your influence with your own kid.

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Why nothing you try actually sticks

Maybe you’ve already read the books.
Listened to the podcasts.
Followed the scripts from parenting experts who swear their method works.

And it didn’t.

Not because the advice was wrong.
And not because you didn’t try hard enough.

But because most parenting advice focuses on what you say and do, without addressing what’s actually creating the pattern underneath.

Here’s the part most parents miss:

Advice doesn’t fail because you’re bad at using it.
It fails because of when your body tries to use it.

A moment happens.
Your teen ignores you, talks back, or tells you they got a D on a test.
Your chest tightens.
Your thoughts speed up.
And suddenly everything in you is saying,
This is out of control. Fix it now.

So you jump into explaining, correcting, reminding.
Not because you meant to, but because your nervous system already hit the gas before your brain got a say.

This is why most parenting advice doesn’t stick.
It tells you what to do, but not how to change what’s happening in your body when it matters.

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What actually changes when you’re not doing this alone

This is why the Parenting Breakthrough Call works differently.

We start with the exact situation you want help with.

On the call, we take one real moment, like the morning rush or a bad grade, and slow it down frame by frame.

You see where your body starts bracing, the thought that says, this is out of control, and the exact point where you usually jump into explaining or correcting.

One mom came to me completely burned out. She was convinced her son just didn’t care about school, and there was nothing she could do. She had even stopped checking the school portal because it made her sick to her stomach.

On the Breakthrough Call, we walked through one real moment.
The moment he told her, “I don’t care,” about his grades.

She could see exactly when she panicked and where she jumped straight into lecturing, before she even decided to.

By the end of the call, she knew exactly what to do differently in the next conversation. Not because I gave her a script, but because she could finally see what was actually happening.

Almost every parent I work with says some version of:
“You don’t understand. My kid is different.”

And they’re right. Every kid is different.

But the pattern creating the loop?
Nearly identical every time.

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Why waiting makes it harder, not easier

This is what the Parenting Breakthrough Call is for.

Not to judge you.
Not to tell you what you’re doing wrong.
Not to give you another list of tips.

But to help you see where the pattern actually starts,
why advice keeps failing in the moment,
and what needs to shift before your next conversation.

Tomorrow morning will come.
The homework battle will show up again.
The next argument is already on its way.

The pattern doesn’t need your permission to keep running.

Waiting doesn’t pause the loop.
It practices it.

👉 Book a complimentary Parenting Breakthrough Call here.

If you’re tired of trying harder and ready to understand what’s really happening underneath the pattern, this is the first step.

🧡 Jeanine