I'm Thys Basson, your personal guide to proven, evidence-based parenting solutions that restore connections and give deep and rewarding relationship outcomes.

This podcast series is the culmination of years of study and experience in helping parents to find practical and achievable ways to develop deep and rewarding relationships with their children, from pre-teen, through adolescence, and into adulthood.

I've studied psychology, focusing on child development and specifically adolescence. I also did post-grad psychology studies and during this time I ran workshops and spoke to 100s of parents about parenting solutions. This enabled me to understand the common issues, but more importantly, to find and implement proven frameworks to build that unbreakable connection with your teenager.

The teenager years are supposed to be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling times for you as a family, and we have found the frameworks to ensure exactly this.

There's a remarkable correlation between best-in-class leadership and parenting styles, and I have been able to apply this with great success. I have 2 teenage children and I have a great relationship with both of them.

I am an organisational psychologist and have had a long career in presenting leadership development courses to senior executives. In addition, I have been doing brain profile analyses on teenagers for the last 20+ years. Working in these 2 areas has given me a unique understanding of the correlation between best-in-class leadership and parenting styles.

As such, Thys and I have developed the Empowering Guide Parenting model, drawing on best-in-class frameworks and combining this with the latest in evidence-based research. The result is a proven and achievable model for parenting success.