Continuing our thought on communication. LISTENING is always extremely important, but with teenagers that means you have to get them to tell you something. That’s not always the easiest thing to do. Do you ever get the feeling that just by asking |
Continuing our thought on communication. LISTENING is always extremely important, but with teenagers that means you have to get them to tell you something. That’s not always the easiest thing to do. Do you ever get the feeling that just by asking |
Do you Listen? Really Listen? This is hard for many parents – me included! We know we have the answer. We know they haven’t thought it through. We know they don’t know what they’re talking about.
Someone compared raising teenagers to trying to hold a wet bar of soap.
Too TIGHT and it shoots from your hand!
Too LOOSE and it easily slips away.
A GENTLE but FIRM grasp keeps it securely in your hand.
Living in a very feelings-oriented culture can condition us to avoid pain and seek pleasure. Our teenagers are no different. When life gets hard, like adults, teens look for the button to push, the pill to take, or the course correction that will
Because of the amount of change and questioning our teenagers face, they are typically more vulnerable to stress than any other age group. Things that you wouldn’t think twice about may be completely devastating to a teenager. The stuff you easily write off or dismiss can
Teenagers typically spend a lot of time staring into the mirror: studying, wondering, wishing, crying.
Do you remember doing this? Asking yourself:
Remember what used to happen to the teenage girl from church who got pregnant? Maybe you don’t, because you never heard about it. She just disappeared.
Tattoos, piercings, hairstyles and color, clothes, music – these are some of the things parents tend to make into major conflict points in our families. When generational styles collide, we often turn
Sometimes the circumstances in our own lives and the stresses of raising and living with teenagers can become overwhelming, paralyzing, and detrimental to our spiritual and emotional well-being. Adding in work and marriage only