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August 12th is International Youth Day. We celebrate their energy, their passion, their creativity and their potential!
Trying to do something nice for your adolescent without them rolling their eyes, is a challenge. But everybody likes to get undivided attention, even your rebellious teenagers.
Today’s tip
Give your adolescent quality time with you alone. No brothers or sisters, no other parent, no friend. Just the two of you. Let them choose the activity.
Even if that activity is to watch him play his online game, shop, binge watch their favorite show or just hang out on the couch.
Fully focus on them, step into their world, show genuine interest, don’t make negative comments. And … don’t forget to enjoy this 1-on-1 moment.
Being an adolescent is not easy.
We parents, embarrass them with our behavior, we bore them with our boring questions, we patronize them with our childish rules and last but not least, we inhibit them in their creativity with our totally outdated opinions ;-)…
So, if you don’t want to ruin the quality time with your adolescent, try not to do the following:
