How’s That New Year’s Resolution?
Did you make a resolution about your teen? Have a plan that you were going to be more understanding? More open to their thoughts? More cool? How’s it going?
The tough part about the New Year resolution is that it is usually a broken promise by the first real week of January. Whether it involves more exercise or more acts of kindness. The excitement to change your behavior just fizzes out with each day of January. The intentions are so good though, what happens?
Your new year’s resolution falls to the way side because of the realization that there is going to be a lot of hard work involved. Not just work, but hard work. This is the commitment part. Each day you may deviate from the perfection that you want to reach your goals, but you are committed. So each day you make fewer and fewer mistakes until you start to notice a change becomes changes. Those changes evolve into a new you and if those changes involve your teen…well, those changes evolve into a new relationship between you two.
So don’t give up because the day wasn’t perfect, you forgot to stick to the exact resolution or you were sidetracked by unanticipated events, refocus. You will get there. Your teen will get there, and it will be worth it.
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