Let’s make no bones about it parenting is a big job which becomes more problematic as our children become teenagers!
Yet there are no instruction manuals supplied with our children when they are born and there are no formal educational programs we can undertake to better prepare ourselves for this huge responsibility.
The skills that we bring to our role as parents are largely sourced from our own childhood observations and experiences. In short many of the skills we use in our own parenting roles are likely to be not too dissimilar from those used by our own parents in rearing us.
If your parents struggled to know what to do then I’m guessing you are probably struggling as well. In spite of this most of us stumble along and do alright until our children reach their teens – yet as to how much this is due to good management or just plain good luck?
If you had thought that you understood your child up to the age of 12 years old then hold on to your seat because when your child becomes a teenager you will most probably wake up one morning and think to yourself – who is this strange young person living with us?
As a parent myself of four children I often find myself wondering if there is a better way that we can prepare ourselves for our parenting roles particularly as our children become teenagers. Continue reading