Advice on Dealing With Teenagers
A sense of nostalgia hit my cousin, Angela, this morning as she was washing her daughter’s old ballet lessons twin quilt with pillow sham. She was cleaning this to give it away to her sister, whose own daughter, now 7, has started to take a liking to ballet. Angela’s daughter had outgrown it anyway. The set has not been used for sometime now. However, seeing it again brought back a lot of memories for Angela, especially since she confided, she is slowly feeling her 13 year old drifting away into her own world.
I didn’t know what to tell her even when I am dealing with a teenage boy myself. The kids have very different personalities, one bright idea doesn’t necessary apply with the other kid. I wish teenagers do really come with a manual as their behavior and the way they think is so unpredictable.
I can only follow my own advice though and make sure that the trust between the parent and the teenager is still there and it remains strong. Teenagers usually retreat when they feel they cannot rely on the other person anymore, or has been embarrassed or ridiculed by that person and I make a conscious effort not to get angry like that at my own boys. I told my cousin the same thing and assured her this is a phase many teenagers go through.
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