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Jay Fitter MFT, author of Respect Your Children: A Practical Guide to Effective Parenting, spoke to Lon Woodbury, the host of Parent Choices for Struggling Teens on L.A. Talk Radio, about the 5 essential issues to discuss with your teen and tween.
As an Independent Educational Consultant, Lon Woodbury has worked with families and their struggling adolescents since 1984. He has founded Struggling Teens, Inc. and publishes Woodbury Reports.
About Jay Fritter
Jay Fitter is a Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT). He has 20 years experience as a family therapist and parenting workshop leader. His book Respect Your Children: A Practical Guide to Effective Parenting outlines how parents can effectively communicate with their children by talking and listening to their answers and by caring for them with love, instead of obligation or resentment.
An Interview On The 5 Essential Issues To Discuss With Your Teen And Tween
Parents, Jay believes, need to discuss the following five things with their children: clothing fashion, school work, boyfriends/girlfriends, peer pressure, and rules and regulations. Parents simply can't afford to be oblivious about these things because they deeply impact their teens and tweens interests. This is because High School can be considered a slice of society, representing various social groups. The students children associated with affected their life and career choices. Children react much more emotionally than adults. They might even be suicidal over issues like a relationship break up or cyberbullying.
Parents should express their concern when they see dangerous clues and talk openly about it with their children. Jay suggested that parents need to learn to listen if they hope to develop good rapport with their children. It was often too late to begin a relationship with their children after a crisis.
Jay listed some of the things that parents needed to get good at: setting clear boundaries, showing consistent caring behavior, and practicing patience over their children's changing behavior and attitudes. They also needed to make a distinction between discipline and punishment. Discipline required careful thought, while punishment was merely reactive and a way to vent frustration.
Jay also covered themes like how parents could cope with issues related to dating breakups, combating peer pressure, and communicating rules and expectations in a consistent and realistic way. Respect Your Children: A Practical Guide to Effective Parenting outlines the steps parents can take to develop rapport with their children and help them through the trials and tribulations of their tween and teen years.
As an Independent Educational Consultant, Lon Woodbury has worked with families and their struggling adolescents since 1984. He has founded Struggling Teens, Inc. and publishes Woodbury Reports.
About Jay Fritter
Jay Fitter is a Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT). He has 20 years experience as a family therapist and parenting workshop leader. His book Respect Your Children: A Practical Guide to Effective Parenting outlines how parents can effectively communicate with their children by talking and listening to their answers and by caring for them with love, instead of obligation or resentment.
An Interview On The 5 Essential Issues To Discuss With Your Teen And Tween
Parents, Jay believes, need to discuss the following five things with their children: clothing fashion, school work, boyfriends/girlfriends, peer pressure, and rules and regulations. Parents simply can't afford to be oblivious about these things because they deeply impact their teens and tweens interests. This is because High School can be considered a slice of society, representing various social groups. The students children associated with affected their life and career choices. Children react much more emotionally than adults. They might even be suicidal over issues like a relationship break up or cyberbullying.
Parents should express their concern when they see dangerous clues and talk openly about it with their children. Jay suggested that parents need to learn to listen if they hope to develop good rapport with their children. It was often too late to begin a relationship with their children after a crisis.
Jay listed some of the things that parents needed to get good at: setting clear boundaries, showing consistent caring behavior, and practicing patience over their children's changing behavior and attitudes. They also needed to make a distinction between discipline and punishment. Discipline required careful thought, while punishment was merely reactive and a way to vent frustration.
Jay also covered themes like how parents could cope with issues related to dating breakups, combating peer pressure, and communicating rules and expectations in a consistent and realistic way. Respect Your Children: A Practical Guide to Effective Parenting outlines the steps parents can take to develop rapport with their children and help them through the trials and tribulations of their tween and teen years.
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Find out more about Struggling Teens. Lon Woodbury has the recorded the entire interview on his L.A. Talk Radio show for people to listen to at any time.
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