Adolescent is a time when teenager want more freedom to "spread their wings." Every parent at this point is confronted with issues as peer pressure, alcohol, smoking, drug use, dating, and pre-marital sex.
During adolescence, teens experience rapid physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development. They go through a lot of changes and development. Understanding their development stages and their traits can help parents support them in developing into independent and responsible adults.
Life with teenagers is an emotional roller coaster. Parents sometimes feel overwhelmed by the stress of bringing up teens. Parents and teens can live together, more or less harmoniously if parents know what to expect and are willing to make adjustments in the way they think and act.
To be effective, parents need to be involved in their children's lives. While this is important at each stage of development, parents need to be especially involved and concerned during adolescence, when teenagers are at the cross roads of not being a child anymore, but not yet an adult.
Sufficient monitoring and good communication, coupled with parental warmth and support, are crucial in a parent-teen relationship. To get involved in a teen's life through love and guidance will make a real difference in a teen's future.
Here are some techniques that may help to effectively parent teenagers;
1. Encourage teenagers to express themselves by talking about their thoughts, feelings, ideas, goals, and dreams.
2. Maintain openness with teenagers.
3. Help teenagers be responsible and discipline.
4. Try to recognize the teenager's effort and the good things they do.
5.Help teenagers learn how to obey from the heart.
6. Step into prevent troubles.
7. As parents, conflict with teenagers need not be treated as a battle.
8. Apologize when one is wrong.
9. Work with teenagers' moods and figure out what to do about them.
10. Handle rebellion with loving firmness.
11. Communicate values.
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