i-Teen-Feel the love

When you weren’t chosen for the team, someone made fun of you. And when you had friend problems, you used to go to your parents for help.

Why has this changed? What has made us begin to avoid the opinions and advice our parents have to offer? During teen-hood we go through puberty. It’s a testy time. We test our limits through our beliefs and the decisions we make. But even when we develop our own way of thinking it is important not to forget about our parents. It is important to understand one another.

Day after day, I hear kids boasting about how they would have told their parents what was going to happen, or how sneaky they are at getting away with things they do behind their parents’ backs. Disrespect, I say to myself, wow, that’s impressive.

It’s as though we forget our parents’ love and care. Because their protection begins to interfere with the things we believe will make us happy, we decide to drift away. Your parents taught you to tie your shoes, they read you stories, and sang you to sleep.

Now that you’re older, those things don’t matter because you can do them yourself, and you are no longer interested in the things your parents want to do to bond with you.

Show the love, be thankful, respect your parents because although you may not think so, you represent your family through the things you do in your life. You can represent them respectfully, or show the world you have not a single care as to what your parents do or say. If you wish to stay close to your parents then try some of these suggestions:

‘ Be forgiving in a conversation.

‘ Be respectful

‘ Be open-minded

Bad things happen and we need to be able to talk to our parents and don’t, so keep the lines of communication open at all times. Figure out in your head what you would like to get from the conversation, and prepare for the discussion.

Say straight out what you would like to talk about with your parents. Often our parents have other things going on when we want to talk and it makes it that much more difficult to talk when we avoid the issue we are discussing.

‘Most children stay close to their parents for guidance in life,’ says Holly Bess. Stay close to your parents. They won’t be around forever so you should love them and admire them while you have them close.