Jun 23
Safety First
Children at this age are easy to be affected by smoking, drinking and drugs etc. due to their unstable mood. Here are some safety tips.
- Car safety, teach the teenager about the importance of wearing seatbelts.
- Ask teenager to wear a helmet when riding a bike and be careful of traffic.
- Talk and discuss with the teenager about the danger of smoking, drinking and drugs.
- Teach the teenager how to handle unsafe situations, such as emergencies, fire, drugs, etc.
- Whenever the teenager goes outside alone, parents need to know how to contact to him.
Tips
- Talk to the teenager about school life often.
- Encourage the teenager to make friends with the children who behave well and love to learn.
- Meet the teenager’s friends.
- Teach the teenager about good nutrition to meet his rapid growing, while avoid eating disordering.
- Encourage the teenager to get physical exercise, which help him to be healthy physically and in positive mood.
- Respect the teenager’s opinion and understand his thoughts and feelings.
- Allow the teenager to argue with parents, however, when he is not calm, remind him to calm down, guide him to a good self-control.
- Guide the teenager to make his own decisions properly.
- Respect the teenager’s need for privacy.
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Monday June 23rd, 2008 at 10:46 PM
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Friday April 3rd, 2009 at 04:15 AM
Thanks for all your Parenting Tips. I think the positive parenting training help to understand your child in better way. There are many offline and online positive parenting courses available designed to improve parenting skills, encourage good habits and improve discipline with children at home and school. One can also read parenting magazines, parenting books and articles to improve its parenting skills.