12/09/2021
Parenting is hard. No one gives you a handbook. You just get a human with a variety of complex emotions and then that human grows through a variety of complex experiences into a teenager. Once puberty begins, all those emotions engage in a battle royale for that teenager’s attention. And everyone expects you to know what to do about it.
Because of how complicated all this is, we are all bound to experience failures at parenting our teens. But experiencing moments of failed parenting doesn’t make you a failure. The only way to be a failure is to refuse to learn from moments of failed parenting.
Teenagers are hard to parent and failed parenting is inevitable. All Pro Dad shares 5 ways we all fail at parenting our teens.