1. Parenting Teenagers Understanding the Adolescent Mind 3

Presentation prepared by Aliboyeva Dilnoza, a 3rd-year student of elementary education, 3BT-20 group, on the subject of English
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Theme:Parent and teenagers.
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Parenting Teenagers
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Understanding the Adolescent Mind
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Why Teens and Parents Clash
Theme:Parent and teenagers.
Adolescence is a challenging time for young people, bringing on not only the physical changes of puberty, but emotional transformation as well and in some cases, the emergence of serious mental health conditions. For parents, it can sometimes seem like their affectionate, adoring child has become a different, distant person and that their teen’s friends have become more important to them than their family.
But some of these changes are part of the essential process of moving toward independence and parents who are able to offer more empathy than judgment can continue to be a source of guidance for their kids, and emerge from this period with their relationship intact. Admittedly, though, teens do not always make it easy: A heightened egocentrism is a core trait of adolescence.
During adolescence, young people often break away from their childhood attachments as they try to develop an independent identity
They may adopt and discard activities, interests, peer groups, and mindsets again and again until they land on a persona that suits them. It’s not an easy process and it takes courage: While trying to figure out who they want to be, they have to manage sometimes bewildering hormonal changes while overcoming constant threats to their self-esteem, including feeling self-conscious about their appearance and body image perhaps for the first time.
Many parents are hyperconscious of the changes adolescence brings to their children but unaware of the way the challenges of raising an adolescent brings changes to their own parenting style. As children become teens, parents may criticize or question them more than before, and be more suspicious, protective, and strict. Remaining mindful of these risks in their own interactions with their kids can help limit the distance between them during the teen years.
Evolutionary psychologists suggest that adolescence emerged as a period during which young humans built the social networks they would need to thrive.
Key to that process is bonding with peers, and responding to their influence, which often involves proving loyalty by taking risks. Research finds both that humans are not the only animals that display greater risk-taking in young adulthood, and that adolescents take greater risks when with their peers than when they are alone.
Conflicts between parents and teens are common occurrences, but just the fact that they have disputes doesn’t mean that a parent’s relationship with their child is weak or in jeopardy. Teens who feel comfortable enough with their parents to raise contentious issues may really be displaying how high a level of comfort and trust they have with them. And a parent willing to debate issue with a teen and not just demand obedience, is showing their child the respect they crave.
Teens often physically retreat from parents and chat less with them. But parents should understand that such distancing is developmentally appropriate.
Teens do not always make it easy for parents. They may come home from school without looking up from their phones, and then close the door behind them as they enter their messy rooms to spend the evening playing video games. But parents cannot stop engaging with their children. Whether they open up to their mothers or fathers about it, teens can struggle with anxiety, depress, low self-esteem, poor body image, bullying, peer pressure, self-harm, and other mental health challenges.
A certain level of stress is developmentally appropriate for teens as their lives undergo tremendous change but parents must remain on the lookout for signs of more serious issues and help kids get effective early treatment. At the same time, parents must be careful not to become sources of stress for kids by overscheduling, applying intense academic pressure, or generally stifling children’s growth through the habits of helicopter parents.
Most teens will experiment with alcohol or drugs at some time during high school or college. Parents should have open discussions with teens about the potential risks and be honest about their own experiences, providing kids with honest information and the confidence to make their own choices. One priority, experts suggest, is encouraging children to make sure that their decisions are their own, and not automatic or socially-pressured.
More than 3 million young people in the U.S., including about a quarter of all high-school students, use e-cigarettes, a remarkable number given how new the product sector is.
Teens may misunderstand the risks of vaping: While vapes are not cigarettes, they still contain nicotine, an addictive substance, and vapes with THC have been linked to lung disease and other conditions. Part of the appeal for teens is that vaping is relatively easy to hide from parents. Parents of adolescents know how ineffective banning things from their children can be, but they should still be clear and firm about their disapproval, inform kids of the risks, and let them know that, if teens are already vaping, they are prepared to support them when they are ready to quit.
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