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

Everything here builds one thing.

A house with a system in it. Start free, take the small door, or take the whole thing — they all end up in the same place.

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Ask Vida

Send me what is happening in your house with your teenager. I choose one question at a time and work it all the way through on the podcast — 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.
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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
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Instant download · 30-day refund
The system · start here

The Family Agreement™ Starter Kit

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
Instant download · 30-day refund
One to one

A private session

Sixty 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
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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.
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Who is behind it

Vida Forward — Family Systems Educator, creator of Strong Back, Soft Front Parenting™, Certified Life Coach. The work is teenagers, ages 8–18, and nothing else.

Straight after you buy

Everything is an instant download. No login, no course platform, no waiting for a welcome sequence to finish before you can use it.

If it is not for you

A full refund within 30 days of buying, no explanation needed. Write to team@vidaforward.com and it is done.

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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Or listen to the Ask Vida podcast