Join Saren and Tiffany Sowby for a very real and candid discussion of some of their most pressing questions regarding their teenage (and pre-teen) children which include:
- How do we recognize, love and cherish our teenagers’ unique personality traits while encouraging them to work on areas where their habits and actions aren’t proving to be helpful?
- How do we balance allowing our children to make their own choices with our desire to get them to do the things we feel would be really good for them?
- Where we we allow our children to fail so that they can learn and where do we jump in to save them?
- How can we best prepare them for successful adulthood?
Show Notes:
https://poweroffamilies.com/strong-relationships-with-teenagers-episode-65/
https://poweroffamilies.com/two-things-teenagers-need-episode-54/
https://poweroffamilies.com/escaping-the-endless-adolescence-how-we-can-help-our-teenagers-grow-up-before-they-grow-old/
Music from Creations by Michael R. Hicks
Audio editing by Christy Elder
Thank you for this presentation! It couldn’t be more relevant to me right now. I have 15 year old B/G twins and a 13.5 year old son. My older two kids are definitely pushing our limits! The thing that struck me to the core was the idea to not “take it personally.” Oh my goodness! My daughter is being mean to me quite regularly. I do so many things wrong and Daddy can do no wrong. I’ve been taking it SO personally, often ending up in tears when she shrugs away from a kiss I want to give her or says I’m annoying her in some other way. It just kills me. Where did my timid sweet baby girl go?? I had hoped that we would have a very close relationship (“just the girls”), one that I didn’t have with my mom when I was growing up. She makes it painfully obvious that she has chosen her Dad over me and it really hurts. Of course I know that much of this is “normal” teen behavior, but that doesn’t help a whole lot. Hearing you discuss this DID help! I may post another reply regarding some of the other issues that resonated so well for me. I so often feel like a failure as a mother, but P.O.M. has helped me to think the just MAYBE, I’m not the only one who feels like this. Thank you, as always!