Cecilia & Jason Hilke
Raising Teens Who Talk to You: A Connected Parenting Approach to Adolescence
About
You used to be their favorite person. Now you get one-word answers, slammed doors, and the nagging feeling that you’re doing everything wrong.
You’re not. Adolescence isn’t a crisis to manage — it’s a relationship to navigate.
More than 35 therapists, coaches, psychologists, and parents share what actually works: why your teen’s distance is biology, not rejection; how to shift from control-based to connection-based parenting; and how to have the hard conversations — about sex, substances, and screen life — without shutting them down.
Through personal stories and evidence-based strategies, you’ll discover that presence matters, repair is possible, and you are still the most important relationship in their life.
No more white-knuckling it. No more wondering if it’s too late.
Cecilia and Jason Hilkey, co-founded Happily Family, an online education company dedicated to giving parents the support and tools to understand how kids’ brains work, address challenging behaviors, clear up communication, and create connection in families. Since 2012, they have interviewed over 250 parent experts and created online conferences and courses that reach a worldwide audience of over 100k families each week. Cecilia and Jason have worked as early childhood educators and with special needs children and have raised three kids of their own (two biological and one “adopted”). They have been featured in local and national media and regularly present at schools, businesses, and conferences locally and abroad. They live in Oregon with their family in a house shaded by an oak tree.