Reply to What did your parents do right in the teen years?

Forum Index » Tweens and Teens

Reply to "What did your parents do right in the teen years? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Taught me how to talk to adults so that I could approach them directly with questions and advocate for myself when I had concerns. For example, when I had a disagreement with a teacher, my parents helped me figure out how to discuss it with the teacher and resolve it without direct parental intervention.

I knew they always had my back if I needed them, but most of the time I was able to resolve issues on my own. This prepared me to resolve problems and advocate for myself as an adult, a skill that I observed in my early jobs many of my peers didn’t have. It’s been integral in my ability to carve out a successful and satisfying career while maintaining good work-life balance; more generally, it has contributed to a general feeling of agency and self-determination in my life.

Although it’s particularly important for teenagers, I’ve worked on this skill with my own kids from pretty early in elementary school—where appropriate, I help them figure out how to talk to adults about their questions and concerns.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics