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Serving You & Your Teen
Does it feel like no one understands you, or takes your view into account as you plan for a future that seems unclear? If the answer is “yes,” there’s good news—you are not alone, even if it feels that way sometimes. And, there’s a good chance that the person who popped into your head when you read that question also answered “yes.” The research is in when it comes to challenges, studies show that everyone faces them. But, not everyone faces the same challenges, or needs to face them similarly.
Encouraging Teens, founded by Desiree Panlilio, is dedicated to changing and improving the relationships between teens and their parents, their communities, and their peers as they plan for the next steps toward the future—no matter how unclear it may seem. Instead of believing teens are challenging, let’s encourage the realization that teens are facing challenges. Instead of giving teens the same roadmap for a collective path, let’s give them the tools and support needed to create their personalized roadmap for the path of their choosing. With this approach, we can turn challenges into opportunities, confusion into conversation, and ambivalence into self-motivation to create…
Clear and Focused Futures.

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MEET DESIREE
Prior to its official founding, Encouraging Teens was the passion and brain-child of Desiree Panlilio. As a former nurse, medical manager, and spousal mentor at the U.S. Navy’s Command Leadership School in Newport, RI, Desiree honed the skills needed for her future role as a mother and community leader. It was through her own teen-rearing experiences that she began developing the tools and communicative framework that would be employed in Encouraging Teens’ effective seminars.
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Read up on the latest events and musings through a positive and life-applicable Encouraging Teens’ lens.
Communication is the Relationship.
A small communication breakdown is enough for everyone to be working on slightly different things, and then you lose focus. (Sam Altman) – Desiree Panlilio There is a saying that distance makes the heart grow fonder. I would disagree with...
Parenting Growth
When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you. (Nora Ephron) – Desiree Panlilio Parenting is the process of caring, supporting, and promoting the physical, emotional, social and intellectual...
The Evolving Parent
There is no such thing as a perfect parent. So just be a real one. (Sue Atkins). -Desiree Panlilio How we parent our young children is much different than how we parent our teenagers. Let’s look at an example. We often tell our young two year olds to find their...
Sometimes my children think I’m getting on their back.
What they don’t realize is that often times
I’m the only one who has their back.
– Anonymous