subject: Teen Dating Advice: Is Your Teen Under Construction? [print this page] Teen Dating Advice: My Teen is a Mess!
Teenage dating advice and guiding teens can feel like perpetual construction on the freeways. Do you feel like the orange barrels dented and thumped from months of standing guard as the watchmen for the never-ending asphalt trucks and busy workers that are trying to complete the project? Is there ever any rest? Nope.
Freeways are high maintenance so is parenting some teens. But the best teenage dating advice is to remember that they are still under construction for a reasonand a season. Sometimes, it can go on for months, even years at a time! Teens that look all grown up yet still require some final touches - Im really tired. I dont think I feel like going out. I just need to hang out at home. Again? Still?
I cant rush the freeway completion any more than I can rush the full development of a teenagers brain. It can be a real challenge as a parent to monitor the ongoing progress of their precious teen. It is even more challenging to experience your own teen dating someone who islets say, behind schedule. Every few feet there is another blatant warning that you will encounter a slowdown or bottleneck in the flow of their relationship. I just cant stand my sister. She makes me crazy! Thats why Im in a bad mood! Really, for a month now? Whats up with that? You find your teen exhausted from a constant state of alert and from white-knuckling for hours on end. In an honest moment, you hope they realize its just not the way the trip was supposed to be. And yet they drive on not knowing where or when it will end.
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Whether your teen has high maintenance friends or seems to attract high maintenance dates, either way, there is a point at which you might want to encourage them to look at why they keep choosing to go down that road. There must be some attraction. Is it the drama of driving over potholes at 75 miles and hour to see how the long they can take it before they fall apart? Or maybe your teen just isnt paying attention to the signs that repeatedly point to the high level of repair needed.
Heres the good news and some teenage dating advice - There is always another way. Always. Teens do not have to go down that road. Sure, that was the plan but they dont have to wait until they have a close encounter with rebar and wire mesh protruding from broken concrete before taking the next exit. Teens can pick another route. Really, give them some teenage dating advice and teach them how to put on their turn signal and give it a try they might actually discover that they like the smoother, quieter option.
Thoughts on this teen dating advice?
Mama j
In the book Daters Ed, Lisa Jander, the Teen-Whisperer, helps parents teach their teenagers to learn how to date defensively, navigate safely and steer clear of unhealthy relationships. www.DatersEd.com
by: Lisa Jander
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