Are you baffled by your teenager’s behavior? Welcome to the club. Please step inside my office. Let’s eavesdrop on other parents:
“My son doesn’t sleep at night, so he can’t wake up in the morning.”
“My daughter procrastinates until she has a panic attack, then I have one myself!”
“My kid’s bedroom looks like a crime scene.”
Do these concerns sound familiar to you? Perhaps you watch child-rearing seminars on the Web, talk to other parents, and even buy parenting books. You learn to dole out limits, enforce consequences, and hold family and school meetings just like a pro. Yet, nothing changes.
Finally, you take the leap and hire a therapist. Even then, you feel trapped in despair with your child’s unresolved behavior. Perhaps the therapist shuts you out of therapy, labels your child with some kind of pathology or reinforces your kid’s negative feelings toward you. And you’ve added to your monthly bills!
[For more of this story, written by Sean Grover, go to http://psychcentral.com/lib/5-...gs-every-teen-needs/]
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