Have no shame about parent or child hitting a skid. Whether it's specialists, medication or a shoulder to cry on, a little bit of hope, expertise and assistance can make a disproportionate difference to a bleak situation.A badly behaved or worrying teenager is the industry standard model. All hope is not lost if one's child is the talk of the school's WhatsApp group for doing something appalling.
While you might find the behaviour terrifying and surely the action of an alien inhabiting your perfect moppet's body, your beloved child is still very much there. Teens can both be good at heart and badly behaved. Sleepless nights are just part of the parents' job. As someone says on The Village practically every day, parenting is not for the weak of heart. No matter how hideous a teenager's behaviour is, the greatest gift a parent can bestow on them is optimism and faith in their future. Parental fear, anger and anxiety are infectious diseases to which our children are extremely susceptible.
You can't stop hormone-fuelled teens experimenting. Your best option, as a parent, is just to catch your children when they fall, keep the lines of communication open and love them through the whole unlovely mess of it.Patience is the most underrated of parental skills. The road to happy adulthood is a long and winding one and there is no correlation between the stars of the U15A water polo and rugby team and eventual success and happiness.
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