Teen Parenting Reflection
I have found teen parenting to be a challenge, but most of my children have turned out pretty well. I have two teens myself and my husband has two teens, so I am also step parenting teenagers. To top that off, we also have another teenager living with us that needed a temporary home.
My husband I have totally different teen parenting outlooks. I have always been rather protective and I keep my kids close, where he treats the kids like they are adults and doesn't worry about where they go, what they do or with who. Neither way is best. A balance of the two would be great. Our different outlooks have made raising teens in a merged family rather difficult. Releasing the kids and enabling them to make their own decisions and face the consequences was very hard for me, but I do believe it is necessary before they leave home. At the same time, I don't believe that is wise just to let them do what they want to do all the time. As parents, we are responsible for teaching our teens to make good choices, which is a huge part of teenage parenting.
Here are some books that might help you when raising teens or step parenting teens… Losing Control & Liking It: How to Set Your Teen (and Yourself) Free |
By Tim Sanford, M.A. / Focus on the Family Do you believe it's a parent's job to make your kids turn out right? Have you turned your home into a fortress, multiplied the rules or jumped in to "fix" things the moment your teenager made a poor choice? Do you wear yourself out with worry - and alienate your child to boot? The truth is that you can't make your kids turn out right. It's not even your job. In fact, your real role as a parent is much more rewarding and doable. Experienced counselor and parent Tim Sanford shows you how to give up your fears about your teenager's future - and the control you never really had. You'll discover the truth about how God parents His children - the truth that can turn your home from a battleground to a birthplace of freedom for you and your teen. |
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Parenting Teens with Love and Logic: Preparing Adolescents for Responsible Adulthood By Foster Cline & Jim Fay / NAV Press When kids hit their teen years, parenting takes on a whole new dimension. As they struggle toward independence and autonomy, some dicey issues emerge. And the real world you want them to be ready for can make you shudder - kids today face life-and-death decisions long before they're on their own. So what do you do? Hover over them so they won't get hurt? Drill them so they'll do the right thing? According to Jim Fay and Foster Cline (Parenting With Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility), hovering and drilling won't prepare teens for the real world. Because they learn responsibility like they learn everything else: through practice. As a parent, you face no greater challenge - and no greater opportunity - than to guide your children through their teen years toward productive, happy, and responsible adulthood. Parenting Teens with Love and Logic will help you meet that challenge and rejoice in that opportunity. |
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Parenting Today's Teens: A Practical Devotional By Mark Gregston / Harvest House Publishers |
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