The Program

17 Going on Adult is a video/seminar which takes advantage of some of the greatest parenting advice out there and puts it into step-by-step instruction to quickly resolve a tense situation.

Specifically, it is a formula that will:

• Teach the necessary skills for life after high school
• Reset communication between parents and teenager to one of mutual respect
• Eliminate contentious conflict and over-parenting while enforcing personal accountability
• Establish ground rules that parents and teen can adhere to
• Give an immediate recipe for solutions
• Alleviate emotional intensity

About Joe Murray

Joe has had the opportunity to learn from and work with people in complex situations. He has provided mediation, conflict resolution, and problem solving of people issues in a business environment for over 20 years. Also as an instructor at the university level, he has encountered and mentored many “adult” students who weren’t prepared to be the adults they were.

With this experience he developed a method for transferring his success in these areas to 17 Going on Adult.

As his own children were growing up he made it a priority to become well researched on numerous parenting techniques and to incorporate as much as possible into his own family. However, he found that putting theories into practice without a detailed, concrete formula was very frustrating in its inconsistency and often led to abandoning what might have been a great approach.

Initially, Joe watched family members struggle with parenting teens. When his own children became teens he searched for ways to integrate what he excelled at into a formula that would address the transition to adulthood.

Joe sees 17 Going on Adult as a program created by parents for parents. He solicited feedback from parents that led him to believe there was a lot of wisdom, experience, and great advice out there, but it needed to be skillfully integrated and put into an easy to use format. This is the foundation for 17 Going on Adult

Joe has a BS in engineering and a MA in Organizational Management and is a father of two.

“I’ve worked with many families with different scenarios including boys and girls, only children, divorced parents, and almost any other situation you can describe. In each case the results have been amazing! Kids learn the skills and find the confidence to meet coming of age challenges. Parents feel confident in their child’s readiness for the real world. Both parent and child reap the rewards of a more peaceful household and a more gratifying relationship.”