How to Protect Your Children From Making the Mistakes YouMade As a Teenager
There are ways to protect your own children from making the mistakes you made as a teenager while growing up and staying with your parents and your childhood friends who had some control over your behavioural attitudes.
Parents do make mistakes as human beings.
They must have, at one time or the other, made some mistakes when they were teenagers which they now term as "regrettable experiences from childhood or teenage years".
You might have smoked before as a teenager.
But, have you ever spoken about this in the presence of your children?Have you bordered to explain in details how you ended up doing that and why you have to stop it, if you have? The truth is that if you had smoked and told your children so, then they will likely not feel so curious as to want to even try it at all, no matter the pressure their peers are piling up on them.
May be you and your partner had experience sex before you got married.
Have you, by any chance explained this to your children during the course of your discussions with them? Did you give them a detailed reason for this? You have to let your teenage children know that somehow you have just realized that those things that you did then were purely mistakes which you would not encourage them to engage in themselves, even if just for experimentation.
Be sincere with your teenage children about the mistakes you have made at one time or the other.
Be frank and do hold anything back because this will not make you achieve your plan for telling them your personal experiences about life.
Never you allow your teenage children to see you as a super person who is different from the rest for whatever reason there may be.
The thing is that very soon they will begin to see you as bigger than the rest of humanity and where they do that they will attempt to do those things you had done in the past which you are already regretting yourself.
Having learned from your own past and you no longer do those things that you have considered as mistakes and regrettable, tell your teenage children emphatically why they should never embark on the same mistakes.
When your teenage children know that you are being sincere with your regret and not hypocritical, they will obey your instruction on this.
Tell them you trust their sense of judgment and ability to decipher the truth and honest opinion of a loving parent.
This way you can secure their trust and cooperation.
Parents do make mistakes as human beings.
They must have, at one time or the other, made some mistakes when they were teenagers which they now term as "regrettable experiences from childhood or teenage years".
You might have smoked before as a teenager.
But, have you ever spoken about this in the presence of your children?Have you bordered to explain in details how you ended up doing that and why you have to stop it, if you have? The truth is that if you had smoked and told your children so, then they will likely not feel so curious as to want to even try it at all, no matter the pressure their peers are piling up on them.
May be you and your partner had experience sex before you got married.
Have you, by any chance explained this to your children during the course of your discussions with them? Did you give them a detailed reason for this? You have to let your teenage children know that somehow you have just realized that those things that you did then were purely mistakes which you would not encourage them to engage in themselves, even if just for experimentation.
Be sincere with your teenage children about the mistakes you have made at one time or the other.
Be frank and do hold anything back because this will not make you achieve your plan for telling them your personal experiences about life.
Never you allow your teenage children to see you as a super person who is different from the rest for whatever reason there may be.
The thing is that very soon they will begin to see you as bigger than the rest of humanity and where they do that they will attempt to do those things you had done in the past which you are already regretting yourself.
Having learned from your own past and you no longer do those things that you have considered as mistakes and regrettable, tell your teenage children emphatically why they should never embark on the same mistakes.
When your teenage children know that you are being sincere with your regret and not hypocritical, they will obey your instruction on this.
Tell them you trust their sense of judgment and ability to decipher the truth and honest opinion of a loving parent.
This way you can secure their trust and cooperation.