Parenting teenagers: learning to let go 17 Articles

by Teresa Brouwer

As the mother of three daughters, I couldn't wait until the teenage years. I was looking forward to talking about boys, make-up, and proms. I was excited to share my high school memories with them and let them know that I ...read more

by Carol Gustke

AND THE WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE: "Don't worry about Luke. You go to Al-anon." I stared at my doctor in disbelief. "Me? I'm not the one with the drinking problem." "I know that, Carol. But someone you love drink...read more

by R Shimoda

It's an irony of life that the very thing that leads us to care for our kids, can also be detrimental to them. Parenting is a complex task to understand and until kids get to a point where all of them act the same, learn ...read more

by justjoeindenver

I'm convinced that there is no greater heartache than raising teenagers. I can't describe the feeling that permeates my thoughts, my soul, and my gut. It's like watching a precious memory that you've treasured for your e...read more

by Lorna Mclaren

Learning to let go can be one of the hardest things we ever do as parents. No matter how ready you think you are or how much your teenagers have bugged you over the years, when the time finally comes for them to spread the...read more

by Savanna Carlsen

When our children are born, they are so precious and fragile. We are willing to do anything to protect them. They are so innocent to the world and as they grow we are there for them when they are hurt, when they are sick...read more

by Alisa Mantall

I knew the time was approaching and soon my daughter would move away from home. I had been preparing her all her life, teaching her how to cook and how to shop. Letting her have responsibilities. She learned to manage her ...read more

by Terry Mccullough

Parents hug your kids. Once at the end of a counseling session with a 14 year old boy and his mother, I asked them to stand up and give each other a big hug to seal the agreement we had made during the session. To my su...read more

by Bernadette Santiago

In life, the most difficult part is letting go of someone especially if he's your child. Now that my two eldest sons are in their "teen age lives," I suddenly feel that they have become total strangers to me. I find it s...read more

by Ladybusker

Addle Essence. No. Not adolescence. ADDLE ESSENCE. The person who was once your little child is now ADDLED in their ESSENCE (essential being, if you like me to translate in HOLISTIC terms!) Whether BOY or GIRL, they'r...read more

by Angela S. Young

Sex and the older adult - something I would have said 'gross' about not too long ago. I don't know why the young believe sex stops when you reach the ripe old age of what? 30? Sex is one expression of love between a ...read more

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by Mz. Veracious

As a mentor to many of the youth in my area now and growing up I have learned that parents need just as much parenting as the children these days. Letting go is easier said than done but at the same time the benefits you...read more

by M. Irene Louis

It's been a difficult month - prom, eighteenth birthday and graduation! This is the most emotional I have been in regard to my teenage son in well at least almost eighteen years. And I have been through a lot with this y...read more

by Shannon Brendlinger

Today I cried because my teen daughter told me to stay out of a problem she was facing. Today I cried because I did not and it made her cry. My daughter and I have always been close. I have also always been close to all h...read more

by Vicki Helgeland

Parenting teen-agers is hard. I am the mother of two boys and one girl. My oldest son and I always bumped heads. We would get involved in these scream-fest that would last for hours. He and I were just too much alike a...read more

by Jane Bastion

The only thing I have learned from parenting two teenage girls,(with another one reaching the teens in 10 yrs) is that nothing I say or do is going to help them. I don't recall it being that hard on me when I was that a...read more

by Lynn Hoare

The first cut is the deepest. I didn't realise this as my youngest son witnessed the horrendous gut wrenching moment I said goodbye to my oldest son at the door to the London flat that was to be his new home with the new w...read more