Your Teen’s Self-love
I want me to be friends with me. Self-love. You can’t love anyone else without it at least not well. You can’t be the best you can be without it. It isn’t directly taught and yet it is a part of everything you will teach your teen before they are an adult.
I want to be liked. I want to be popular. I want to be successful. I want to make a lot of money. These are all code for; I want to feel good about who I am. I want to like myself. Often times teens will wait for the admiration of others before they like themselves too. Of course, this isn’t just teens or Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Michael Jackson, etc wouldn’t have been so unhappy despite their extreme wealth and talents. No, teens really need to learn that others like you when you like you.
So instead the wish list should read, “I want to like me.” I want to like me a lot. I want to like me successfully, and if I get the love in return from others that I give to me, all the better, but this begins with your teen liking what they see when they look in the mirror -first.
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