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“Caleb it’s time to take out the trash.” The fight following that simple request was like a tornado ramming into the house and taking off the roof. Screams erupted and before I could back out of his room we were in a shouting match over a chore that would have taken less than two [...]
The amount of visual and auditory stimuli is at an all time high. Almost every second of every day kids are exposed to a multitude of things that can interest them and take their attention away from what is really important in life. Being a part of a functioning family unit is important [...]
Parenting adolescents is a huge challenge but with communication, teenage parenting can be made easier for you and your child. One of the hardest things in parenting adolescents is communicating in the right way, and here are some ways that teenage parenting can be made a little less stressful: Â Firstly, recognize opportunities to talk. Whether youâ??re [...]
At some point, your teenager is going to want to start dating. This will happen whether you want it to or not. Keeping your teen locked up from the concept of dating is not going to make for a healthy relationship between you. It’s important that you work through the teen dating scene with excellent [...]
Nowadays, it seems that there are more and more things for our teenagers to buy every day. There are expensive clothes, mp3 players, video games, designer sports shoes and so much more. If, like the majority of us, you do not have pots of money, then it is clearly difficult to give your teenagers everything [...]
As a parent you want nothing more than to keep your children safe in what is becoming and increasingly safe world, but this is not always easy. One of the dangers which worries all parents today is that of drugs and, while you would hope that your children would never take drugs in the first [...]
Communication is the single most important aspect when parenting a teenager. We can give them a sense of compassion, understanding, and support. We can listen to their opinion. We can peacefully discuss a situation. On the other hand, we can convey to them that we are disappointed and angry about what they did. We can scold them [...]
Our teenagers’ lives are often a closed book to us and no matter how hard we try they simply will not let us open the book and read what is inside. But how are we supposed to protect out children and help them to develop into self-sufficient and confident adults if we do not know [...]
You find yourself begging your teen to go places with the family. As soon as your teen gets into the car with you, he begins complaining about you or his life, and how miserable everything in his world is. In just a few minutes of being within the same five-foot radius of one another, the [...] |
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