Michelle Icard Books
Michelle Icard is an educator, speaker, and author specializing in adolescent development and parenting. She has written for major media outlets and leads programs that help parents and middle schoolers build better communication and confidence.
Known for: Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen: The Essential Conversations You Need to Have with Your Kids Before They Start High School
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Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen: The Essential Conversations You Need to Have with Your Kids Before They Start High School
A practical parenting guide that helps adults navigate crucial conversations with their early teens. Michelle Icard provides strategies and scripts for discussing topics such as friendship, responsibility, identity, and technology, aiming to strengthen communication and trust before high school begins.
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Understanding Adolescent Development
Before we embark on these fourteen conversations, you must first understand what’s happening within your child at this age. The adolescent brain is undergoing extraordinary remodeling. Neurologically, their prefrontal cortex—the part responsible for planning, reasoning, and impulse control—is still ...
From Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen: The Essential Conversations You Need to Have with Your Kids Before They Start High School
Talk 1 – Friendship
Friendships become the oxygen of adolescence—they shape how your child sees themselves and how they navigate the world. But the terrain of middle and early high school friendships is tricky: alliances form and dissolve quickly, group dynamics shift overnight, and inclusion or exclusion feels intense...
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About Michelle Icard
Michelle Icard is an educator, speaker, and author specializing in adolescent development and parenting. She has written for major media outlets and leads programs that help parents and middle schoolers build better communication and confidence.
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