Most parents make assumptions about their teens based upon their own experience as teenagers. This can be helpful, but most of the time it isn’t. Teens are in a very unique transition season of their lives and they require a tremendous amount of wisdom and guidance. Instead, most are parented with heavy handed authority, threat, behaviors that are negotiated, and unloving manipulation. Parents try and gain control, during a time when they need to relinquish it.
When I tell others that I never had a single day of emotional drama with either of my two kids, they think I’m lying or my kids must be freaks. In this series I unpack precisely how I was able to enjoy every minute of my kids adolescent years, and how you can too. You don’t have to “endure” them. You don’t have to live in tension, or live with emotional outbursts. Your teens can act responsibly…and you can enjoy them… here’s how.