PARENTING TEENS TIPS

Hi Parent

We all remember some of the punishments of our own childhood. How unjust they seemed, and how outraged we felt! Punishment undoubtedly has a place in parenting teenage children, but only a NEGATIVE place. Punishment does not make teenager children good. If teenager children are punished frequently, it may even make them bad. As suggested by veteran novelist, William Dean Howells, parents have clung to the wisdom of Solomon, in this respect, through centuries of changing conditions. Solomon said: “Spare the rod and spoil the child”; Mr. Howells suggests that we might with profit spoil the rod and spare the child. Love and patience are the secret of parenting teenagers. Have A Blessed Day!

There is no universal formula for parenting teenage children. To perform the duties of parenthood well, parents must put in efforts at understanding their teenage children more clearly. The understanding of our teenage children mind should not be left entirely in the hands of specialist, it concerns the parents. Parenting teens will be a pleasanter task if parents understand the workings of their teenagers’ mind.

It is better to let your teenage children be alone than in bad company. Evil communications corrupt good manners. Ill qualities are catching as well as diseases; and the mind is at least as much, if not a great deal more, liable to infection, than the body.Go with mean people, and you think life is mean. There is always hope for parents who takes any real interest in self-improvement. You are never too old to “turn over a new leaf” and begin a new record! To Your Success in Parenting!

Parenthood - Setting a good example is hard, but it is the challenge of parenthood that transforms and enhances society. It is the reason, I believe, that parenthood exists in the first place.
Nature has encoded in us the same magical parenting instinct that she has encoded it in all the creatures, this means that when one is sincere about being a good mother or father, one becomes the best parent one could ever be.

Parents cannot expect their teenage children, with their limited experience and undeveloped intellect, to understand us; many of the heartbreaks and misunderstandings between parents and teenage children are due to mistakes that could have been avoided if parents have put in more efforts at understanding their teenager’s mind.

“Youth fades; love droops; The leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all ” Holmes

Mobile Phone Addition Among Teenager -Better late than addicted

As mobile phone addiction becomes more prevalent among juveniles, it is important that parents think twice before they give their teenage children a mobile phone. As with any addiction, recovery is a painful journey, and prevention is better than cure. Therefore, it is best that parents teach their children that a mobile phone is not necessary until they turn 16 years old, because until that age, most school-going children’s lives are centered on the school timetable.This means that their whereabouts are generally predictable. Hence there is no need for them to be constantly contactable. More important, let your children know that if they get addicted to something, they would not be able to live normally. Explain to them that mobile phones are embedded with many addictive activities such as text messaging, games and Web-surfing. Therefore, there is a very high chance that an impressionable child can get addicted to the mobile phone. Prepare your child for the responsibilities that comes with a mobile  phone. Teach them to plan their time wisely and engage in their pastimes with proper limits. If your child already has a mobile phone or eventually gets one, it is important that you limit your child’s usage of the mobile phone.