Tag: teens

  • Therapy for Parents (How to be there for your kids)

    Therapy for Parents (How to be there for your kids)

    Parenting is more complex than we think. We need to know how to parent each child a little differently. We also need to know how to parent each child in each developmental stage a little differently.  Parenting a five year old is very different than parenting a teenager, parenting a quiet introverted child is different…

  • Parenting Teens:  Ten Basic Attitudes

    Parenting Teens: Ten Basic Attitudes

    Parenting teens, begins with a few basic principles that apply in almost all situations. 1.  Be as patient as possible.  Teens are beginning a new stage of life that is very unknown to them.  Their arrogance is to cover up vulnerability and lack of understanding. 2.  Criticizing their mistakes makes it worse.  They feel bad…