Teenage Behaviour: Communicating with Teenagers

I get hundreds of questions about teenage behaviour. Parents are often convinced they have the most difficult teenagers and teenage discipline is a big issue. I have a free parent coaching audio for you to listen to, where I answer some of the questions my readers or clients have asked about communicating with teenagers.

Questions?

• My teenager is withdrawn, what are ways to communicate to him?
• Understanding teenage behaviour
• Communicating with teenagers
• Teenage discipline - what is really important?
• Difficult teenagers or is this normal?

In this audio I talk about how to communicate with your teenager, to deal with teenage problems more effectively. Parents of teenagers have sent me emails asking for help dealing with withdrawn teenage behaviour, and lack of communication.

I talk about what is important for your teenager, how to understand their challenging your authority or values, and how you can encourage difficult teenagers to be more involved. Something to think about: difficult teenagers, or is it our reactions to their behavior that are more the problem? And yes, there will be plenty of challenges with your teens as they develop their own set of values and beliefs and build confidence in their ability to handle problems.

I hope you find some useful tips to inspire or support you in managing teenage behaviour creatively, fostering good communication with teens, and empowering your teenager to develop their internal guidance and self discipline.

More Help With Teenage Behaviour

Throughout the site you'll find tips to inspire or support you in disciplining children with love and respect, and empowering your children to develop their internal guidance and self discipline. Communicating with Teenagers can be challenging for many parents so getting ideas and inspiration to deal with teenage problems is really helpful.

You can also get your questions answered online with our mini-coaching service, Ask Annie.

Super Skills 4 Kids
I work from the premise that kids need to learn new skills in order to behave differently. For many years I have run Super Skills 4 Kids as an extensive course teaching kids of all ages (and parents) to reach their goals - be it a skill goal, or behavioral goal.

I am very excited to have finally re-developed this course into a home-study course that is accessable to lots more families.

Super Skills 4 kids home-study course is designed with a wide range of age groups in mind, and can easily be modified for teens. Some of the case studies within the course feature teenagers.

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More Resources For Understanding Difficult Teenage Behaviour

Teenage Behaviour: Negotiation
Teenage years can be a delight and a challenge for many parents. Heres some ideas on handling some of those tricky times!

Click here for Information and tips about Adolescent Psychology.
What's happening in their head? How are they feeling, what's important for Teenagers?

Adolescence: Physical Development.
Information about Physical Development and Sexuality in Teenagers and tips to inspire you.

Disciplining children.
For general ideas on handling challenging behavior read my article on disciplining children.

Misbehaving Children
Do children really misbehave? For more ideas dealing with difficult issues, read this article on child behavior.

Child Development
One of the keys to understanding child behaviour, is understanding what is appropriate for the child's age. Click here for an overview with links to more in depth stages.

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