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to talk to a teen you must look back at what your life was like when you were a teen.think about it,could you talk with you parent's when you were a teen? for me as i look back of course my mother knew next to nothing about what i was going through. i'm sure everyone remembers saying " you just don't understand". i believe to be able to talk to any teen that we as adult's must look back at our feeling's when our parent's tried to talk to us. if we as adult's want to have any kind of meaningful conversation's with our children we must step back and remember how we felt at that age. another way to help our teen's is to know there is no right or wrong way to talking. each teen is a individual aand as a individual they have their own way of dealing with growing up,and as soon as we see that all of our teen's our different and can not be treated the same, of course some teen's are easier to deal with than other's!i feel that for our teen's to feel more comfortable with us as parent's that we also have to let them know that we as parent's are not always right,we have also made mistakes in our life. that way our child will be more comfortable coming to us about their troubles.you see as parent's we put our selves up on a pedastal,like we are the the only one's who know right from wrong. we must understand not all of the right's and wrong's that we grew up with still apply.as parent's we must realize this is a new day and time,we must adjust with the time's.because so many parent's have to work long,hard hour's we don't realize that we no longer feel that we have time to address every issue our children have,but i dissagree.for our children's sake we must make the little time we have count. to do this we must set aside a certine amount of time to just listen to what is going in our child's life. if our child feel's as if he or she has your undivided attation they will feel as if when they are talking to you,you are paying attition. we must stop judging our children by our own since of what is right or wrong. if our children feel that we stop at some time in our day to just listen to what their issue's are with out judging them or trying to make them do everything we feel is right,we might just get a positive response from them. of course until you establish some kind of give and take with your child they will contiue to not trust us enough to relate what is really going in their life. we and when i say we as adult's(parent's or not)are so rapt up in our own drama's

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