Advice on parenting teens

Advice on parenting teens When I started in private, twenty years ago, I often here it says to me "Jeff, you're really good at working with adolescents." And I said, "Well, thanks, I also breathe well. "I discovered that most therapists do not like working with young people or are scared of them or both.That was fine with me, because the fear and not really helped me build my practice when I started out.Adolescence is not a diseaseYou rarely hear or see me refer to adolescence adolescence. The reason is that the end of adolescence is adolescence sounds like a disease or condition that must be cured.Teenagers injured in the same places that we forget that doSometimes their struggles are real, because the level of challenges they face are very different from the challenges we face every day basis.Here is a useful way to examine this phenomenon - if you have a broken finger and I have a broken arm, my injury is more serious in May, but still hurts the finger as a crazy. Advice to take a parent youi said today: "The average is 15 adolescents in the course on 25 and 15 in the course of 5, all at the same time." Keep in mind that the concept and was the parent of a teenager.Visit SecretsofGreatRelationships.com for tips and tools to create and develop a relationship. You can also subscribe to our f * r * e * e 10 days program on how to enrich your relationship today, from relationship coach and expert Jeff Herring.