Parenting: The teen agers

 

Parenting: The teen agers

Teenagers, dealing with hormone changes and issues of identity, fornication, and alcohol, may feel that no one can understand their passions, especially parents.

 

The youngster times pose some of the most delicate challenges for families. Teenagers, dealing with hormone changes and an ever-complex world, may feel that no one can understand their passions, especially parents. As a result, the teen may feel angry, alone and confused while facing complicated issues about identity, peers, sexual behaviours, drinking and medicines.
Parents may be frustrated and angry that the teen seems to no longer respond to maternal authority. Styles of discipline that worked well in earlier times may no longer have an effect. And, parents may feel alarmed and helpless about the choices their teen is making.
As a result, the teen times are ripe for producing conflict in the family.

Typical areas of parent-teen conflict

      Controversies over the teen’s curfew,
      The teen’s choice of musketeers
      Spending time with the family versus with peers
      School and work performance
      Buses and driving boons
      Dating and fornication
      Clothing, hair styles, and make up
      Tone destructive behaviour similar as smoking, drinking, and using medicines

Dealing with the issues of nonage can be trying for all concerned. But families are generally successful at helping their children negotiate the experimental pretensions of the teen times — reducing dependence on parents, while getting decreasingly responsible and independent.
 Still, there are a number of advising signs that effects aren't going well and that the family may want to seek outside help. These include aggressive behaviour or violence by the teen, medicine or alcohol abuse, promiscuity, academy truancy, skirmishes with the law, or raw behaviour. Likewise, if a parent is resorting to hitting or other violent behaviour in an attempt to maintain discipline, this is a strong peril sign.