You think you have been clear with your teen. You tell them you have an open door policy to approaching you on certain issues. What does that mean? You can’t assume they know what you mean by that. Teens can be very concrete. They literally think of a door being open and then wonder about [...]
Your teen wants what they want when they want it and they want it now! Does this remind you of the toddler years? Don’t feel their panic. Don’t rush. Do it if it is to be done by you, but not on their schedule. There is a reason patience is a virtue. Rarely is anything worth [...]
You are like any other person your teen meets in the world. If they don’t know you, it will be hard to share the personal part of them that they keep to themselves. For you, it’s like they keep it from you and you may have a sense of entitlement like you sdeserve to know. [...]
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 [...]
