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Discover easy-to-action tips and strategies to help you if:
- You’re quick to lose your temper when talking to your teen
- Your teen immediately shuts down when you try to talk about a difficult matter
- Conversations often escalate into shouting matches or silent standoffs
- You’re often met with eye rolls, sighs, or dismissive comments during discussions
- You find yourself feeling frustrated and unheard no matter how hard you try to get through to your teen
- You find it hard to stay calm and neutral, especially when your teen’s emotions run high
- You find your teenager to be a total mystery
Instant Access Digital Guide
Unlock easy-to-action tips and strategies to help you:
- Understand what the transition will involve
- Check in with how your child’s feeling
- Identify and catch issues early
- Know where to go for help and support
So you can help your child:
- Build their new found independence
- Grow their confidence
- Develop their resilience
- Make new, healthy friendships
We know that having a good relationship with our teenager is so important and that good, open communication is a key factor in this.
But how do we encourage our teens to talk to us, at a time in their life when they are more likely to push us away rather than come close for a chat?
In fact, trying to persuade them to have any kind of relationship with us can be a challenge at this stage. They retreat to their bedrooms, clam up, act like everything we do annoys them and sometimes, shut us out of their world completely.
It’s not always easy being the parent of a teenager, but they need us more than they realise and there are a number of things we can do to keep these very important lines of communication open.
If we as parents don’t demonstrate how to handle and de-escalate conflict, our teenagers will never learn how.
It can be a really tough thing to do if you weren’t shown it by your own parents when you were growing up.
The good news is that it’s never too late to learn and this is why we’ve put together a list of phrases to support you for different issues you might face when managing conflict with your teenager.
Do you want to improve the relationship with your teen?
To help parents the team at TeenMatters have put together this therapist- approved Reading Guide where you’ll find our list of recommended books and podcasts that we use daily in our work with parents. They find them really valuable and we think you will too.
We think of family holiday time as sitting together playing endless games, not so for the teen who increasingly is valuing their alone time and time with their friends.
Giving teenagers room to be teenagers is important, especially around the holidays.
The process of becoming an adult is one in which the child must separate from their parents.
This can be a painful process for both teen and parents and unnecessary pain can be caused if we take this strive for individuality as a personal reflection of our parenting and push against it.
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