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What is the meaning of the word "respect"? It means to "treat with special consideration or high regard". Isn't it true that all human beings want to be respected? Through all my life and through all my travels over decades I have yet to meet one single soul that does not want to be treated respectfully. If you would like your parent teenager relationship to undergo a serious upgrade, this blog post for you.
Surveys administered where the respondents are teens and they are asked "what change would they like to see in the behavior of adults"? The number one response includes the word "respect". In other words, teens, more than anything else, want respect. As a parent then, it stands to reason that the most important thing that we can do to upgrade our parent teenager relationship is to practice respecting our teenager.
When I approached our 17 year old son and blurted out that I respected him he looked at me as if I was an alien. He stopped what he was doing. Quickly though a smile came over his face causing me to think he was feeling my sincerity. Now I am not saying that the parent teenager relationships in my own home are in a precarious state. However they certainly could do with some improvement.
I have heard many parents say that they are uncomfortable in using the word respect when describing their teenagers. Different reasons have been posed for this. However here is my advice. Go ahead and feel uncomfortable but as the Nike advertisement says "just do it" anyway. Truly, this one action step alone has the potential to seriously transform your parent teenager relationship.
So how do you go about transforming your parent teenager relationship by using the word "respect" in conversations?
The action steps to transform your parent teenager relationship are two fold.
First thing. Inform your teenager that you respect them for an internal quality that they have.
Number two. Indicate an instance where that quality in your teenager was visibly evident.
For instance you might say: "You know John, I respect you for your faith. I could really see in last week's football game, that even though it looked like your team was gone, you were dogged in your perseverance as if you knew you were going to win. And you did.
Don't forget to place your focus on your teens internal quality using the example as a means to highlight it. By implementing this one strategy alone, you can bring your parent teenager relationship to a whole new level.
What is the meaning of the word "respect"? It means to "treat with special consideration or high regard". Isn't it true that all human beings want to be respected? Through all my life and through all my travels over decades I have yet to meet one single soul that does not want to be treated respectfully. If you would like your parent teenager relationship to undergo a serious upgrade, this blog post for you.
Surveys administered where the respondents are teens and they are asked "what change would they like to see in the behavior of adults"? The number one response includes the word "respect". In other words, teens, more than anything else, want respect. As a parent then, it stands to reason that the most important thing that we can do to upgrade our parent teenager relationship is to practice respecting our teenager.
When I approached our 17 year old son and blurted out that I respected him he looked at me as if I was an alien. He stopped what he was doing. Quickly though a smile came over his face causing me to think he was feeling my sincerity. Now I am not saying that the parent teenager relationships in my own home are in a precarious state. However they certainly could do with some improvement.
I have heard many parents say that they are uncomfortable in using the word respect when describing their teenagers. Different reasons have been posed for this. However here is my advice. Go ahead and feel uncomfortable but as the Nike advertisement says "just do it" anyway. Truly, this one action step alone has the potential to seriously transform your parent teenager relationship.
So how do you go about transforming your parent teenager relationship by using the word "respect" in conversations?
The action steps to transform your parent teenager relationship are two fold.
First thing. Inform your teenager that you respect them for an internal quality that they have.
Number two. Indicate an instance where that quality in your teenager was visibly evident.
For instance you might say: "You know John, I respect you for your faith. I could really see in last week's football game, that even though it looked like your team was gone, you were dogged in your perseverance as if you knew you were going to win. And you did.
Don't forget to place your focus on your teens internal quality using the example as a means to highlight it. By implementing this one strategy alone, you can bring your parent teenager relationship to a whole new level.
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