What do you do when your teen won’t talk? Something happens where you need to address their behavior and instead of having a conversation about it. You end up giving a lecture and your teen just sits there essentially waiting for you to stop talking.
The first thing to realize is that your teen is [...]
Your teen will never remember what happened. How you got where you are now, barely talking to them. They won’t, but you will. If you try and explain what happened they will deny, deny, deny. This is why it’s better to prevent the whole thing in the first place.
Your teen, at twelve or thirteen, will [...]
Becoming a teen isn’t just confusing to adults, it’s confusing to tweens too. Their outbursts catch them off guard in the same way they catch you off guard. The difference is they are too embarrassed to come back to you and say, “I’m so sorry. I don’t know what came over me.”
The crazy thing [...]
