2006-10-26 00:15:34 · 14 answers · asked by tammy_deer 1 in Family & Relationships ➔ Family
Are you kidding...? Throw sanity out of the window... along with reasoning and logic... They have no place in the mind of a teenager's parent... It's a day to day thing... Good luck... Don't get too consumed in worrying as they normally change every three days or so during this period...
2006-10-26 00:56:43 · answer #1 · answered by deakjone 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Purchase the book..Power of a praying parent by Stormie Omartian. This has been a great deal of comfort to me. This book teaches you how to pray when teens go wild. It shows you how you can get a break through with your teens by simply praying.Most important, don't give up. Here is something that I tell most parents of teens. If you add up the hours that your kids are actually with you against the hours that they are away, you will see that the odds are stacked against us. They spend a great deal of time in school and with their friends so they have more of an influence on them. Kids today have this live for today only attitude. Just keep praying and praying.
2006-10-26 00:44:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it is, seriously. before you can be a parent you must be a freind and relate to your kids. then you can be a true parent. its hard i know, i was a monster and a half when i was a teenager. take part in there activitys regularly and gain there trust in its fullest and never let that trust down or it most likely will be years before you regain it. go out to different activitys your teenager likes with her without invading her life. share a genuin interest with her. you will find the teenager in question alot easer to handle and raise. you probly work hard to provide for the teenager in question and dont have all the free time in the world but you MUST find the time. be creative but dont go off the wall with it or they will be more resistant to your rules and you. if that dont work try counceling you and the teenager in question, at least you can get yourself some thorsine but i highly disaproove of that being used, its bad to do those kind of drugs perscribed or not.
2006-10-26 00:23:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I Really hope so hun....I am just starting out and I think my sanity is on the line....I am 48 years old and I have a 12 year old, 11 year old and a 7 year old. If I make it through this alive that in itself will be a miracle. As others here have said..keep the lines open...try to maintain your humor...PRAY and keep a watchful eye while they learn to spread their wings. Always be that safety net when they fall.
2006-10-26 02:22:55 · answer #4 · answered by Linda 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your sanity is in your own hands. Or rather, it was about 10 years ago. You determine the way your kids act as teenagers by the way you teach them when they're toddlers. Let a two/three/four-year-old get away with murder "cause they're cute", and you will get a 12/13/14-year-old who's out of control.
2006-10-26 00:39:22 · answer #5 · answered by Liz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is not accessible to advance toddlers with finished equality no count number who will boost them. people will continually have their own own biases and could prepare those biases to the chldren they advance, no count number how a lot they misinform themselves and declare to be independent and independent. i'd say a baby is a lot more effective perfect off being raised by technique of kinfolk who're more effective in all chance to furnish them with different such issues as love and a experience of racial or cultural id which may be puzzling to locate in a a lot less own, communal situaton. Sexism isn't the in basic terms component human beings must be pondering even as determining who might want to advance a baby. Racism, religous prejudice and so on is certain to come back up in a communal difficulty more effective than in a familial putting. I dont imagine that making everyone be raised to imagine the exact same is the path to equality, if something, that is the path to having a inhabitants it really is way a lot less complicated to regulate and a lot less in all chance to imagine that is okay to have a differing view or possibly a separate experience of indentity from the crew. i imagine it really is an extremely risky and slipper slope certainly. i don't think of "figure's rights" is the nicely perfect word more effective than "youngster's rights." toddlers who're raised and not using an organization experience of individuality and who they arrive from are a lot more effective in all chance to be at a loss for words and ungrounded as adults. "Can sexism ever be extinguished even as father and mom are left in cost of elevating toddlers?" in all likelihood not, yet that aspect of ideology is not likely to be reached no count number who will boost a baby. people did not evolve to stay in a gender equivalent society. till the necessary nature of the human animal differences appreciably, it really is naive and illogical to believe that any human being is able to elevating any baby without some biases in accordance to gender...or race or faith and so on.
2016-12-05 06:08:25 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES i did it and a lot people did it before we did. Idid it by myself because my husband was in the service and i had to do it. Sometimes i thought i was going crazy but i keep praying that i would get though this and i did and so will you just like the rest of uses did.
2006-10-26 00:53:33 · answer #7 · answered by fonda b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think its possible i remember my mother telling me i could make the pope cuss i don't know how she got threw it but if you hide until their in their 20's it will pass till then just have to roll with it and pray that and accept the things you can not change the courage to change the things that you can and the wisdom to know where to hide the body
2006-10-26 01:22:16 · answer #8 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well Tammy let me think about this for a second.............OK i think i have the answer to this one.....NO. you see Tammy I and my wife have been on the same stretch of road as you and we still have a few miles to go. Tammy I'm sorry that i couldn't do more for you, Just hang in there champ it will all be over eventually.
P.S.. If you ever find the formula that works...PLEASE let me know....GOOD LUCK
2006-10-26 00:36:47 · answer #9 · answered by Ranger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is possible.... but hard .......Just keep talking to your teens and be aware as much as possible what is going on in their lives...and the day will come when it will be over ...but as a parent I don't think you ever stop worrying rather babies, teens or adults
2006-10-26 00:21:48 · answer #10 · answered by skyeler101 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋