Parenting Teenagers – The Relationship
It was my kids homework that did it. Every night became a challenge to me how to get my son, a non-academic, to do his homework. I tried encouragement, patience, and teaching, but all of them to no avail. I even tried other tactics like bribery, threats and punishment, and still no success. Until I’ve tried anger,... Read More →
Teenagers Behaviour – Teenagers Like Taking Risk
It’s very difficult being a parent with a teenager going through what I term the ‘I’m Invincible’ phase behaviour. This is the phase when teenagers start doing stunts, scary and dangerous things as a way of testing out their physical strengths and limits. This is not so surprising given that, at... Read More →
Parent Stress – Teens Exams is One of Them
Parents today feel that they should be encouraging and helpful in their teenagers to try hard and do well in their exams, or any academic work. The problem is that in trying to achieve this goal, many parents end up causing stress and frustrations either for themselves, for their teenagers or for both. So what’s... Read More →
Teenage Advise? Get Your Point Across To Them
Giving advice to a teenager is very easy and smooth; making the teenager to take that advice is another story altogether. It’s not only a case of the advice ‘falling on deaf ears’, most of the time teenager seems to make it deliberately out of their way to do the exact opposite, that’s when you know that we’ve... Read More →
Getting Your Teenager to Do Chores As Well
“Why can’t you put the linen basket away when you’ve emptied it?” I shouted at my son in frustration. “I’m already fed up with tidying up after you most of the time. Don’t you think I’ve got better things to do with my time than clear up after you?” I continued... Read More →