Parenting Tips

Some things that you may want to try:

• Do: pick your battles – is it really important that they have a tidy bedroom?
• Do: try to see things from their point of view – you were that age once!

Do: behave as you want them to behave; for example, use the language you want them to use.

Do: share your plans with them it might encourage them to do the same

Do: ensure you come home when you said you would

Do: try to remain calm

Do: pay compliments about clothes, hairstyle and music

• Don’t: call them names – you don’t like it!
• Don’t: criticise their friends.
• Don’t: put them down.

Adults and their children often enter difficult periods of their life at the same time.  You have both got worries of your own.  Ask yourselves - are you taking it out on each other?

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