Parenting Skills That Work With Teens

“My parents don’t understand me! They don’t listen! Before I can finish speaking, they are already telling me what to do and what not to do! I wish they could just sit and listen to me, and understand what I want and what is important to me!”

With young children, most parents found that telling them what to do worked fine. However, with teens, many parents found themselves facing resistance and rebellion when they used the same way to guide and correct them. Many teens too are struggling to communicate with their parents and trying to seek their understanding. If you have a pre-teen or teen, come and support one another in discovering ways to parent teens.

Key areas covered

Parents will learn:

How to understand their teens today, their lifestyles, their behaviours, values, the demands on them, the influence of media and the challenges involved in parenting teens
To explore the emotional needs of teens
Examine the important aspects of their role as parents of teens
Discover what teens wish from their parents
Ways to meet the emotional needs of teens
How to handle triggers in parent-teen relationships and the unmet expectations
To coach teens in specific life-skills like decision-making and goal setting
To manage stress, set-backs and boy-girl relationships
Ways to bond through meaningful activities