Tips for Parenting Teenagers
Annette Paxman Bowen writes a great post about connecting with teens [it is excepted from a letter she received. Some of the tips included:
- Support their interests
- let your home be the gathering place
- Look for something to praise and compliment every single day
- natural consequences for choices and behaviours
- Reflective listening is powerful
- Have them check in with you when they come home
- Let them have complete stewardship of their rooms
- Have fun with them every single week
- Laugh a lot
- Talk (and listen) a lot
Actually all the tips were so good I included every one of them!
Posted: February 3rd, 2008 under Parents, Teenager, Understanding Teenagers.
Comments: 2
Comments
Comment from Annie
Time: February 4, 2008, 6:06 pm
Hi Nigel,
Thanks for linking to our site! We’ve had some visitors click over from this post, which is how I found you. I wanted to clarify that I received the letter from Annette; the letter is entirely her ideas and words.
Love your parenting teenagers site here! Thanks,
Annie (editor & host at Letters to a Parent)
Comment from Nigel
Time: February 6, 2008, 7:43 am
No worries, Annie - glad you had some visitors popping over.
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