Posts Tagged ‘parent tween communication’

How Did We Get Here? Not Talking To Each Other (2010-5-17)

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, [...]

Tween Communication: The Teen Door Hanger (2009-10-23)

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 [...]