Parenting adolescents

– Balancing holding our limits with non-anxious connection. Keeping a focus on our thinking and behaviour as parents is especially difficult when parenting teenagers. Sometimes adolescent behaviours are full of so much impulsivity and intense emotion that we turn all our attention to trying to manage them –  rather than managing ourselves in our interactions…

Joe reflected on the progress he had made as a parent saying:  “Over the last couple of years I had lost all confidence and direction as a parent with Chloe; but now it’s like I’ve got hold of the steering wheel again.  Now when she’s pushing and pushing to get what she wants, I know…