All we can do is our best with an open heart and understanding ears.
I wrote an article on “Letting Go of our Teenagers” and ended with the idea that raising a teenager is a time of great potential for personal growth and learning — for the parents.
I see this need for my own parental re-education as a gift. I did not always see it this way. In the past, I have engaged with far too many battles with my teens, getting drawn into one power struggle after another, while demanding respect. I often resorted back to my juvenile self raising my voice to out-yell my teen. When my teens would lose control and become volatile, I would lose my self-control and try to suppress them by dishing out punishments.
Not every teen is difficult and rebellious, but rebellion is a normal part of brain development. It has always been this way. Parents had the same complaints about their teens 1,000 years ago.
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