Graduating to Your Teen’s Uniqueness
Your teen’s graduation day. A day of absolute pride for both you and your teen. Sometimes there’s a big whew! that they are graduating and other times there is such a sense of accomplishment to having squeezed every opportunity out of their high school experience. There are accolades for grades, service, popularity what there is no appreciation for and yet what may be the most important thing your teen learns while they’re in high school is who they really are. That prize is priceless.
As Josh Shipp’s rap states to the right, don’t let anyone tell you who you really are. He goes on to say the thing that really matters is to be honest. What he does not add although it is probably implied is that your teen needs to get to a point where they are honest with themselves. Honest about their talents and their weaknesses, honest their dreams and their failures and even honesty about who they are morally, politically or even as a partner and be true or honest to whom that person is. When they are comfortable with this person, they realize that not everyone will like who they are, but what is more important is that they like who they have become in essence who they are now.
This is a great foundation upon which to build the begining of their adult life filled with important decisions about career, spouses and social environment. Without being honest with whom they are, they are at higher risk of making poor decisions and being someone they aren’t for a large portion of their life happy with until they get the courage to be their true self. However, if you see it. If you get the glimpse of your teen’s confidence, their strength in the type of person they have become, their ability to know, “Hey I’m a type A kinda chick and I need a type A kinda guy!” confidence then you know that your teen has done the true work of their teen years. They have developed a true sense of identity and awareness for who they really are.
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