Dr. Mark Schillinger

Founder, Challenging Teenage Sons & Young Men’s Ultimate Weekend

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Finally! A Way To Communicate and Motivate

Your Son - Without Anxiety, Anger or Arguments

In As Little As 30 Days You Can Have a Calm and Cooperative Son

You can enjoy the same peace, happiness and cooperation that this family experienced after coaching with Dr.Mark....

“Before we met Mark, the three of us were fighting all of the time. Our home life was awful. His ability to work with our son was nothing short of a miracle. He skillfully administered wisdom and direction to us all. Now we spend our time together in laughter, discussion and creative pursuits.


Mark’s methods are like having a training manual on how to raise a teenage son with 24/7support. With the aid of direct training with Mark, we’ve experienced a complete turn-around.”

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Get The Tools You'll Need To Help Your Son

Become More Responsible, Resilient and Resourceful

Before I coach parents or mentor their son, I provide a free 20-minute consultation to find out the specific problems in the family dynamics. Inevitably, every conversation begins with the parents saying, “My son’s a good kid, but…”


95% of the sons I mentor really are great kids - good souls with good hearts. I also know that, as a parent, you’re doing your best to provide for your son’s needs. 


However, your son may be suffering from the anxiety and stress of being overly attached to his digital devices and consistently having to handle school responsibilities. At the same time, he’s busy exploring relationships on social media, dealing with family conflicts, distracting himself with mindless entertainment, figuring out how to grow up and experimenting with drugs or alcohol.

All of this can lead to your son feeling over-empowered and behaving immaturely, indifferently or dis-respectfully.

Proven Ways To Motivate Your Son To Become More Mature and Independent 

By following my method, I’ll be mentoring you and your son so that he can:

  • Reduce unnecessary attention on his devices
  • Release his anxiety and anger safely
  • Relax himself quickly
  • ​Develop effective school habits
  • ​Manage his time more efficiently
  • ​Discover his own wisdom
  • ​Channel his energy into healthy behaviors
  • ​Ask for help without losing self-respect
  • ​Turn his disinterest into self-motivation
  • ​Harness his biological urge to get out into the world
  • ​​​Overcome his fears of failure and rejection
  • ​Minimize lying and maximize honesty
  • ​Enjoy mutually beneficial relationships
  • ​Acquire the skills he'll need to become independent, and
  • ​Respect himself enough to minimize peer pressure

Wendi and Paul Gilbert

Laura Ballard

“Mark offered my husband and I a unique set of practical tools to use daily, which improved our communication with each other and with our son. In addition, he built the foundation of these tools on a spiritual base that made genuine love and caring the glue to keep us moving forward with hope and resilience.”

Marcia Meyers

Marcia Meyers
“You’ve given us so much. You are a uniquely talented artist with uncommonly powerful instincts about transformation. You’ve given our family great tools and a renewed sense of hope, love and possibility. Thank you”

Peter Meyers

Peter Meyers
“Mark offered my husband and I a unique set of practical tools to use daily, which improved our communication with each other and with our son. In addition, he built the foundation of these tools on a spiritual base that made genuine love and caring the glue to keep us moving forward with hope and resilience.”

Marcia Meyers

“You’ve given us so much. You are a uniquely talented artist with uncommonly powerful instincts about transformation. You’ve given our family great tools and a renewed sense of hope, love and possibility. Thank you”

Peter Meyers

The Secret to Raising a Positive and Productive

Teen Young Man

For hundreds of thousands of years, parents had the cooperative assistance of the tribe’s mentors and elders to raise healthy and resilient children. The key to the success of the tribe was that they shared the same way, or method of leading their children to become happy and productive. 


Since this time-honored, ancestral tradition of raising families communally is fading out of history, parents no longer have a trusted roadmap that serves as an effective guide to lead their families in the right direction.


Without a proven way, you might be finding yourself anxious and possibly fearful about your son’s future. Unfortunately, you may unconsciously act out your concerns through stressful and unhelpful behaviors with your son.


Parents have to have a way, or their sons will grow up without a way, or worse, they’ll find their own way in a world that’s clearly not setting a good example of how people should be taking good care of themselves and of each other. 

Mark with Shaman & Young Man in Kenya

Using my coaching method, I’ll show you how to challenge, or arouse, your son to:

1) develop behaviors that demonstrates mature adolescent masculinity

2) discover his own authentic values, so that he can fulfill his true potential

All of this can be done without arguing, yelling or threatening.


This step-by-step coaching system applies the sciences of:

  • Stress management
  • ​Adolescent brain development
  • Personal growth
  • ​Parent-child attachment bonding
  • ​Positive discipline, AND
  • ​A strong dose of tribal family wisdom
Using my method, The RIGHT Way Method of Family Unity, I’ll give you the tools you’ll need in order to better use,


 your authority and influence. You’ll be able to motivate your son to become more cooperative inside of your home,


more responsible outside of your home, more confident in himself and more relaxed with the world.

Bohegian Family

“Dr. Mark has been a godsend helping my son and my family. Through Dr. Mark’s help, my son has totally turned himself around. My wife and I have become better parents, we learned how to keep him on track and my son is more productive.” 

Dave Bohegian

Laura Snelling

Rick Clark

Ann Rippun and 

Michelle Fouts

Allana Pratt 



“Using your method of using consequences, not punishments, my son doesn’t react verbally or physically. He just gets it. There's no anger or frustration on my part anymore, just the natural consequences and love.


Your words have been a soothing balm to my heart and soul. Thank you for all that you have guided us through.”


It’s Not Your Fault That It’s Harder Than Ever

to Raise Your Teen Son

After my visit to Kenya and gaining some insight about family dynamics in a Samburu Tribe, I realized that the parents I was coaching parents - just like you - who already had the right natural instincts to raise their teen boys into mature young adults. It became clear to me that parents did not have the right tools, to mentor their son in a rapidly changing society that is making it harder than ever to get the attention of our children.

 

Making up irrational consequences, becoming easily frustrated, speaking or acting punitively, feeling like you want to give-up and losing your energy is not going to help your son respect you or trust your advice.

My coaching will provide you with a clear roadmap, so that you’ll be able to confidently lead your family in the right direction. 

My proven system will help you:

  • Calmly and clearly communicate in a way that motivates your son 
  • Remain relaxed with your spouse and your son in all situations
  • ​Apply your instinctual leadership skills as a parent
  • ​Co-parent together uniformly & consistently - whether divorced or married 
  • ​Nurture your son to develop healthy beliefs & behaviors

Mark with family in Kenya

  • Use your authority and influence with confidence and love
  • ​​Instill the values you know your son needs to learn
  • ​Use appropriate consequences as a learning opportunity for your son
  • Handle the toughest family issues without threatening or yelling 
  • ​Decrease your stress and increase your energy
  • ​Celebrate your personal and family victories together 
  • ​​Enjoy more fun together, even when dis-agreeing 
  • ​​Guide your son to make intelligent, mature decisions, and
  • ​Make it safe for your son feel open and honest

IMPORTANT NOTE:

Most young men are resistant to talk therapy because they can't just sit down in an office and automatically become emotional about things that sadden, anger or frustrate them. Just like I’ve taught other parents and therapists, I’ll give you the strategies to use to get your son to open up and honestly voice what's true for him.


The new method of mentoring teens that I’ll teach will foster the healthy development of your son’s emotional intelligence, whether your son is an extrovert or introvert, over-empowered or under-driven, over-confident or unwilling, entitled or indifferent, or suffers from anxiety or attention disorders. 

Rodriguez Family
“As my son was becoming a young man I was feeling as if I was losing touch with him. This led to me becoming frustrated and afraid because I couldn’t figure out how to restore my relationship with my son. I became angry at myself for his struggles and my inability to guide him. Thankfully, we discovered the Young Men’s Ultimate Weekend and had the opportunity to meet Dr. Mark. Shortly after, I decided to have Dr. Mark start coaching our family.


The coaching for me and my son is based on the teachings of The RIGHT Way method that’s used at the YMUW and in Dr. Mark’s family coaching. His coaching has taught me how to calmly communicate with my son. His method has given me a framework for keeping my son and I in close relationship.


Dr. Mark has been a blessing to work with. During our sessions Dr. Mark is warmhearted, understanding, honest, and tough, meaning that he holds me accountable for what I need to do. I recommend Dr. Mark because he teaches you how to improve your relationship with your son and provides you the tools you need to help your son become a thriving young man.” 

Rodriguez Family

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