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  • Disconnect Between Teens And Parents (11-18-2009)

     

    TODAY’S SCRIPT:

    A huge disconnect can develop between parents and teens, when parents fail to make the shift to a new mode of parenting in the teen years.

    Believe it or not, teens normally desire to remain connected to their parents.  But that desire can be destroyed by parents who fail to shift from hand-holding and scolding their teen, as they did when they were younger, to helping them make decisions on their own. Teens learn from making mistakes and especially from the consequences they experience.  So, in the teen years parents need to both allow mistakes to happen, and to also enforce the consequences when they do.

    It’s difficult to watch, but allowing consequences to do the correcting is the best way for teens to learn.

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