The shop · parenting teens & tweens, ages 8–18

Everything here is built to help your family feel better at home.

Start where you are — with something free, one simple tool, or the complete system.

Every step is designed to bring your family closer to the same place: clear expectations, less tension, more accountability, and a home where everyone feels heard and knows how to move together.

You don’t have to change your whole family overnight. Choose what your home needs today, and start there.

Because peace at home is easier when your family has a system.

A family together at home, laughing
Start here · free

Ask Vida

Send me what is happening in your house with your teenager. I choose one letter at a time and work it all the way through in the newsletter — the situation, the words to say, and what to do when it gets tested.
You stop guessing at the one thing that is actually going wrong, and you hear it answered out loud by someone who does this for a living.
Free
Send your question
The $20 door

Teens Group Chat Guide

(Because group chat is the new playground)
Five situations every teenager meets in a group chat and fifteen word-for-word lines they can use in the four seconds they have to decide who they are — including how to leave a chat without making it a headline.
Your teen learns how to be confident, respectful and kind in a group chat and know when to leave — before the night they need it, not after.
$20
Get The Group Chat Guide
The system · start here

The Family Agreement™ System

Build Your Board, the agreement everyone signs, Strong Back, Soft Front Parenting™, the 30-minute meeting script, and the Recovery Play for the week it gets tested.
The rules stop being yours to enforce and start being theirs to keep. Your teenager can see what they are responsible for, and a house that is predictable is a house that is peaceful.
$37
Start With The Family Agreement
One to one

A private session

Fifty minutes with me on your family specifically — your teenager, your house, your version of the argument that keeps repeating. You leave with the board drafted and the consequences decided.
You do not have to work out how the system applies to your family. We build it together and you go home with it finished.
$97
Book a session
Schools & workplaces

Book me to speak

A parent night, a faculty session, or an employee workshop for parents of teenagers — the same system, delivered to a room.
Your parents leave with something they can build with their family in one day, not a list of things to feel guilty about.
$1,200
See what a school can book
Coming soon

The Family Agreement — the book

The full system, written out: why families run on systems rather than reminders, the eight things every house argues about, and what to say in the week after the agreement gets tested.
The kit is what you build. The book is why it works — and the thing you hand the parent who says they have tried everything.
Coming soon
Tell me when it's out
Not for sale yet. No card, no charge — just the email.
Coming soon · 2027

Counselor certification

Training for school counselors and social workers to run The Family Agreement with the families on their caseload — the materials, the scripts, a directory listing and an annual refresher.
Your school stops depending on one visit a year. Every family that walks into that office gets the system.
$1,500
Join the waitlist
Not for sale yet. No card, no charge — just the email.

Who is behind it

Vida Forward — Family Systems Educator, creator of Strong Back, Soft Front Parenting™, Certified Life Coach.

Not sure where to start?

Read for a while first. The blog is free, it is all for parents of teenagers, and most people find their own answer in there before they buy anything.

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Stay encouraged. Stay connected.

Get my free 5-Minute Family Agreement Conversation Starter, then receive one Encouragement Phrase Card each week — simple words to keep you and your teen encouraged, connected and supported through the hard moments.