I wouldn’t date someone who hit me! I wouldn’t date someone who was mean to me! Your teen seems so confident and clear on the kind of person they want to be around, but when it comes right down to it, something doesn’t seem right. Why do they date so many people in such a [...]
Let’s say that for whatever reason your teen looks forward to leaving your household one day, their focus is on getting OUT whichever way they can. My hope is that they focus less on running away from you and take the time to plan what they want to run towards. Where they’re going is important [...]
Do you remember walking with your teen when they were a toddler? Did you walk in front or behind so you could watch how they were walkin’? As the parent of a teen it’s important to walk a couple steps behind. You want to know what’s coming and prepare yourself and them for that change [...]
There are expectations that your teen thinks they’re supposed to meet. They should do this or they should look like that. It can be overwhelming at times. The expectation of what they think they’re supposed to do when they start to develop who they are is what others think of them. Your teen’s sense of [...]
You can try and please some of the people some of the time, but you’ll never please all of the people all of the time…even when that person is your parent. There is a belief that just because someone is family or you make them family through marriage that they love you unconditionally. I wish [...]
As your teen develops meaning learns how to do more things, they will figure out they don’t know how to do new things. I use the word development a lot when I write and reference things teens normally do. But if they get too overwhelmed or frustrated, they will have a response, a behavior as [...]
I just want to think up the perfect job. Perfect? Hmmm…that’s a tall order. In general you just want a job that makes you feel like you’re contributing something to the world and build on that. This is what I told a teen who was stuck about what to do with his life. It’s rough [...]
