Aug
7
Helping Teens With High School
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Where to Buy: Real Life Guidance Website
Description: A very straightforward report on how to help your child make it through those high school years. This informative report gives you insight from helping your teenager figure out who they are to dealing with bullies and peer pressure.
Review: Being a parent can have it’s ups and downs. It is not easy and unfortunately they do not come with a manual. In my day, you either asked your own parents for help, a good friend, or just had to wing it and hope in the end you did the right thing.
For today’s parents there are many opportunities available to help with certain types of situations and most parents are willing to look for and find the information they need. If you’re looking for some guidance in helping your teenager make it through high school then you need to pick up a copy.
This guidance is some of the best I have read. The author, Aurelia Williams, gets right to point of the matter and leaves nothing to chance. With experience herself she knows and has used this information with her own children. It had to have worked because as honest as this report is I would never imagine her giving it to anyone else if it didn’t.
Dealing with a teenager can be very stressful. First off, they are a teenager and have no idea what is going on in their mind or with their bodies. If that’s not enough they also have to deal with other teenagers who are going through the same things. I didn’t have a clue how to help my children at this age. As I was reading this report I found myself saying things like, “Yes, that would have worked! Why didn’t I think of that?”
This Report deals with helping your teenager find out who they are. To me that’s probably the most important part of a teenager’s life. It’s not easy. How many of us still don’t have a clue who we are? With the information in this report you can help set your child on their way to figuring this out and being proud of who they are and what they stand for.
It also gives you some insight into how to help your teen deal with some pretty tough things. Things such as peer pressure and the bullies they might be facing in their school. It even goes into dealing with relationships and how to handle dates and the dating rules you set as a parent.
Helping Your Teen in High School is just full of great information on helping your child through their high school years. Even if you don’t have a teenager yet this report can help you. If you’re like me, your teenagers are grown and on their own but I needed it to be able to deal with my grandchildren and the things they will be going through as a teenager. I’m really glad I have this report and it will come in very handy when it’s Grandma’s time to help.
Jun
18
YOU AND YOUR SPOUSE: A UNITED, UNMOVABLE FRONT
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You and your spouse need to convey to your children, through your words and actions, that you’re together on your decisions and they can’t pit one parent against the other. And they need to understand that when you’ve made a decision, all their arguing and fussing will not change that decision. How do you do that? Before handing down decisions to your children, make sure you and your spouse are in agreement about that decision. (And be sure to do this somewhere that your children aren’t privy to your discussion!) Then, once that decision has been given to the children, make sure you don’t cave under the pressure of their arguing. In our home, when one of the kids asks us for something (say, permission to go to a friend’s house for the night), we take time to think about our response. Once we give it, we don’t change it. Our philosophy is to say yes whenever possible - they hear “no” often enough, and if we can say yes, why not! But when we say no, we don’t change our minds just because they don’t like the answer. If you and your spouse give careful thought to your responses and provide a united, unmovable front, your children will soon stop trying to pit one parent against the other, and will begin to understand that arguing with a ruling is futile.
Jun
12
Saying Yes to Your Kids
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Quick Tip - Teen parenting advice:
“The next time your child asks you something that ordinarily would respond in a hearty, NO, stop and remember this axiom of parenting… “Say no when you have to and yes when you can.” For instance, let’s say Jane wants to dye her hair a lovely shade of fuchsia. She’s got the money to do it and “all my friends are doing it, too.” Now, you know that more than likely she’s going to hate it, and you will probably hate it, too. But think about it… Is this an action that is going to cause her any kind of physical harm? Will it have a long-term impact on her mental health? Some of her peers will likely make fun of her, but she can always dye her hair back, or wait for it to grow out. Think of it as a learning experience. Not every general wins every battle. The goal is to win the war… to turn out a basically good kid who has the tools to be healthy, happy and gainfully employed eventually. And every good general knows sometimes you have to give up some less important ground in order to achieve victory in the long run. Sometimes it can even be fun to give in on something silly. Maybe it’s having dessert before dinner, or letting them stay up late on a school night to watch a movie with you that you can talk about the next day.”
-Kelly P.
Now Personally, My son’s only 4 so I don’t know I will feel when he’s a teen, but I think the outrageous hair color would not be something I could handle, but the principle is the same. Your focus is to win the war not the battle. You want your teens to learn to make correct choices later in life, so they need to experiment with smaller decisions on their own as a teen (and learn that sometimes they might regret quick decisions). Otherwise they won’t know how their decisions will effect them when they make big choices.
Jun
10
Show Interest In Your Child’s Day
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Another wonderful tip: Daily talks about their day.
“From age three to adult Start young talking to your children about all the events of their day. I started with my kids at ages 3 or 4 when they went of to Mother’s Day out and preschool. Every day, it became a part of our daily ritual for my kids to tell me all about their day. For me to ask questions was normal. So, by the time they became teenagers, they still looked forward to telling me all about their day and were never resistant to any questions I had. They knew I’ve always been interested in them. They trusted me. So, now we still talk all the time. I’m the one they tell everything to–even more than their best friends. I don’t judge them. I tell them what I think because they have always heard my respnse to their day. But even if they do things I don’t like or approve of, they still feel a need to tell me everything.”
-Kathrine
Jun
7
School Trouble for Teens
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For the teenager who is doing poorly in school, start going to school with them. That means attending all classes and lunch. Your child will definitely take a whole new approach to school. This works for pre-teens as well. Most teachers appreciate this, and are glad you are taking an active role in your child school work and discipline issues.
I have a friend that went to school with her 13 year old daughter for one week straight. SHe went to each class and went to lunch with her. Not only did her grades improve, but her mom was able to see just what her ADHD diagnosed daughter went through in class. She noticed all the distractions she faced in school and they both tried to come up with ways to improve her concentration together.
Take the time to see what your children face, if you don’t embarrass them to death, you may have new appreciation for each other.