In these pages you’ll find positive parenting strategies for the teenage years and into adulthood. This is a time of change for both you and your teen. Change for you as your relationship and responsibilities toward your teen changes. And change for your teen as they work out their own identity and values.
This stage of parenting can strike fear into the most resilient of parents. Just when you think you’ve got this parenting gig sorted, they suddenly change. Many parents will describe this period as being more intense and difficult than the early years.
And they’re right. In some ways, parenting a teen is akin to learning how to parent all over again.
You may feel that your teen has changed into a stranger almost overnight. Hopefully it will encourage you to learn that your teen is just as confused as you about who they are.
In these articles we will be looking at how to have a better understanding of your teen, along with maintaining a strong connection during these years as your relationship evolves and develops, and you guide them to adulthood. We will also look at your ever changing role as a parent. Understanding what parts of your relationship and guidance you need to hold on to, modify, or discard.
Life After Children was a reminder of the lifestyle we’d given up in our desire to be parents. It was something we had to let go of, in order to gain something better. In letting go we were prepared to never have that season again.. my colleagues’ example was a blessing… A promise that it would only be for a short time, and with that promise the admonition to treasure the season I was in.
I’ll never forget the day I was driving home with my teenage daughter when we saw her friend, visibly distraught and wandering aimlessly in the 40°C heat. Her relationship with her mother had been rocky of late, just the normal parent-teenager conflict. Mum was fed up with parenting an out of control teenager and had
I remember how first baby’s high school graduation took me by surprise. I don’t know why I wasn’t ready, maybe it was because she’s my first, but for some reason I got to my daughter’s graduation day and it hit me that I had a young adult in my home. And I wasn’t ready to
What Every Teenager Should Know Recently I was working with a group of year 7 kids. The focus was on resilience and networks and through our activities the kids were asked to answer a series of questions anonymously. There were a couple of answers, echoed by more than one of the kids, that I was
Rediscovering yourself after motherhood. How to cope with letting go of your child as they approach early adulthood and your role changes from Mummy to Mum.
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