Rules To Follow While Parenting Teenagers

It is obvious that parents loose temper and patience when they find themselves miserable dealing with stubborn teen or disrespectful teen, but remember you have to master the skill of Patience. You don’t need to be patient all of the time but don’t throw out your frustration on the teenagers. Parenting teens is a skill and to master the skill you have to learn the tools and some of the tricks of effective parenting. With passage of time you’ll be able to master the relationship with your teens.

So let’s take a look what do you need to learn:

Ineffective-Poor communication may sabotage your relationship with teens. You spend all of your day doing the activities like going to office, or even stay at home, socialize with others during that day, lots of things are there to talk and discuss your day to day happenings with the teens; don’t you expect the same from them, so it’s time to play your part as well. Communication should be in light manner and in a language they can understand easily; I don’t meant of the native language you speak but the tone, style that teenagers are most often used to.

Teenage years are the most active part of learning not only from the school/college but from the family. Have you ever thought how you train your teens? While you are busy with your life, you can spare time to teach them what you have done for them when they were toddlers and don’t even know how to tie shoe laces, if still teens haven’t learned how to do this try to teach them how to do that-look for the next time if they had followed your directions. Similarly you can teach lots of things in similar manner. 

Try to evaluate your teen’s abilities and capabilities and expect the same from them. Over expectation will lead you to frustration, being rude to them. So know your teen, encourage him/her on what they are able to do well. Don’t push boundaries. Teens should know their abilities and if you encourage and train your teen, the possibilities are great that your teen abilities will grow. 

While spending time with teenagers, your focus should be on teaching them the values with love and affection. Whichever topic you are trying to explain, make it interesting and listenable by quoting examples of teen’s favorite characters.