Seven things every parent should know

Seven things every parent should know

What do you know about your teenager? Teens world sometimes get very complex and difficult to understand.Several changes occurs in children as they grow from been kids into teens and what we know about our children often determine how well our relationship goes with them. Amongst the so many things we need to know a few of them are essential in helping us getting out of their faces into their hearts. The following seven points are just few among the several important things we need to know about our children and especially teenagers.

1. Know what kind of parent you want to be. This has been referred to as
parental reflection, it reveals why or what are the driving forces of your
behaviour as a parent. Fear, failure and disappointments can be great obstacles to genuine parental reflection.
Parents who don’t reflect often experience no growth or improvement in their
relationship with their children, responses to their children based on their
parental needs, emotional distance from these kids.

2. Know how your teenager perceives the world around them. To succeed in
doing this, parents must understand changes their kids and teens are going
through. These changes in them also changes what the world around them
expects from them.

3. Know changes expected from your teens by world around them as they grow. Changes in appearance, thought pattern, and relationships with others around
them.

4. Know the changes your teens see in the world own around. These includes
changes in their understanding of what is called reality, changes in how things
can turn out to be or what life may bring their way and how they can survive
them.

5. Know how changes in world around affect children. These changes around
often affect their self confidence, steadiness and feeling of been secured.

6. Know that there are certain unseen forces that move teens into action.
Teen's action though highly unfathomable are influenced by certain guiding
principles, fundamental beliefs, and past experiences.

7. Know that changes that are emotional, intellectual, physical and spiritual in
children may cause a gradual separation & distance between children and
parents. Though these changes appear to be natural they are alarming to parents.

Ilori Olalekan