Here 11 straightforward tips to follow when raising your teenager.
1. Your teens don’t want you to be their friends. What they need is for you to be a reliable responsible role model worthy of their respect, and not some overgrown finger-snapping hipster who wears too tight jeans or T-shirts with slogans advocating the virtues of 100 proof liquor.
2. Don’t debate the teen ever. If you buy into their teen logic (which is basically illogic, the product of an immature brain and every extreme of emotion known to mankind) your mouth will go dry and your ears and nerves will surely fray. Teens need to know that no means no.
3. Don’t buy your teen a car. The teen should earn the car, or at least a portion of it (and by that I don’t mean one of the tires).
4. Encourage sports participation even if your teen has two left feet…Sports participation develops perseverance and cheerfully functioning as a team member.
5. Let the school know you in a good way so that school personnel do not dive under the desk when you approach. If you are asked to speak at the school, your teen will feel mighty proud.
6. Your teen needs some house rules, else he becomes a sloth and his room begins to seriously resemble a gerbil cage.
7. Your teen needs to work unless her school and academic demands take up all available time. Why? As stated above, if allowed to vegetate, teens can and will become human sloths.
8. To know your teens’ friends is to know your teens. Teens have a secret life, and a parent’s goal is to penetrate the veil of secrecy that is sometimes thicker than the CIA and the KGB combined.
9. Look at your teen daily and it’s okay to stare. Interact meaningfully with your teen daily, and by that I don’t mean asking, “Did you take out the garbage?”
10. Know that if your teen gets into hot water, he may be too embarrassed or afraid of your wrath and disappointment to tell you, even if you have a great relationship with your teen or–think you do.
11. Just when you think your teen has learned from his mistake, he will make another doozy of a mistake. Be prepared for this. Remember: the human brain is not fully formed untill age 25. Yikes!
Of course, it’s all easier said than done. Rules are easier to list down. The hardest part is implementing and making sure every single rule or tip is followed. Nonetheless, the 11 straightforward tips can guide you on the rough road of puberty blues.
A lot of parents usually make the mistake of giving in to their child during the teenage years. Unfortunately, that’s the worse mistake you can make. You just can’t give in to avoid any kind of confrontation.
While you have to make sure you’re always there for your kid, you also have to make sure that what you say prevails. Giving in to your child will just make the rough road ahead even rougher.
You definitely want to be the kind of parent your child can run to anytime. There’s just no doubt that you want the teenage years to be just as endearing as the toddler years. With all the highs and lows of the teenage years, you can end up confused and lost as well.
So as much as you went nuts during the toddler stage, you can easily go berserk during the teenage years. There’s just no other way for you to survive this particular phase of your child’s life without going berserk. The 11 straightforward tips should be able to guide you along the way.
You can read more about the 11 straightforward tips on www.rd.com. The website sure has a lot of parenting advice you can make use of.
Which among the tips do find most challenging to take on?
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