The Teens Bundle: Home Is Where the Heart Is + Parents of Teens & Emerging Adults Cafés

Get a special deal with our Teens bundle! Contains two Café decks of $64 value.

Home Is Where the Heart Is: Conversations to Love and Affirm Your LGBTQIA+ Children (Parent Café Booster Pack) is a conversation deck with 150 questions based on the five Protective Factors for parents whose children are identifying as part of the LGBTQIA+ community. While most approaches to this issue rest heavily on training for parents about the importance of acceptance for long-term positive outcomes for children, these Cafés are for parents who don’t need to be convinced. They love their children, they want to support them, and they are wrestling with their own feelings, values, fears, and limiting beliefs.

The foundation for the deck is: 1) the assumption of parents’ unconditional love for their children and their willingness to practice self-awareness and to surface and interrogate their biases, and 2) full knowledge of the benefits of listening and talking through thorny subjects in the safe context of Parent Cafés. The design team is a collaboration of parents with lived experience supporting their children’s gender and sexual orientation journey to discover and live true to who they are, as well as professionals who have devoted their professional lives to assisting LGBTQIA+ youth and the adults who love them.

This deck is co-created with our partners Family Builders and Gender Spectrum.

Parents of Teens & Emerging Adults Parent Café in a Box is a conversation deck that assists with navigating our kids’ adolescence.

As our children mature and become teenagers and emerging adults, there are countless new challenges that parents face raising them. Our Parent Cafés for Parents of Teens & Emerging Adults support parents in having real, authentic conversations with other parents around these challenges, and this Café in a Box features 200 questions in both English and Spanish that use the five Protective Factors to facilitate these conversations.

The box can be used either as a standalone deck or shuffled together with other conversation decks in Be Strong Families’ Parent Café in a Box suite. Each question on these Café in a Box cards assists parents in having honest, in-depth dialogues with other parents that will strengthen their understanding of their own role as parents and how to truly engage with their teenagers and emerging adults.