Raising your Teenage Daughter
One of the most challenging tasks in today’s world the parents experience is, to understand their teenage daughter. Parents face difficulty in understanding the feelings, behavior, wishes and demand of their adolescent daughter.
Girls entering this age want to enjoy freedom and want to do things that adults do. They become conscious of their physique and beauty. Sometimes in order to fulfill their curiosity, they get addicted to smoking, drug, pills etc. Teenage girls often spend hours chatting on the internet with new friends.
Teenage daughters and mothers often have conflicts over matters like:
1. A lack of neatness in her room.
2. restriction
3. Boys and dating.
4. Selection of friend
5. Conflict over dress.
• Parents must remember that these are the valuable years in her child’s life. So they should set aside some time for their daughter no matter how busy they are with their work or house hold chores.
• Rather than scolding and finding faults of your teenage daughter, try to open up with her. Behave like a friend to her. Rather then screaming and shouting keep your cool and try to reason with her. Talk about your life. Don’t hold back anything out of fear. She will follow you. You will gain respect as a parent when you are honest.
• Give her space. You don’t need to over power her. She requires some independence. Try to listen to her opinion. Try to think back the days when you were of your daughter’s age. You will understand her feeling easily.
• Take time to meet boys she dates. Denying will help nobody. Get to know him and give your daughter specific rules to follow. Show your love and concern to her. She will definitely follow the rules.
• Show your wild side. Otherwise they will find you boring.
• Though some times they may be difficult to handle but still do not raise your voice. It will further increase her disobedience. Be kind to her but set limits at the same time. Remind her how much they mean to you. Don’t think that your daughter has grown up and you can not hug her. When young girls do not get affection from their parents, they try to seek it elsewhere.
• Raise her self esteem so that she never feels insecure about herself. Invite her friends at home and give warm welcome. Develop your Daughter’s inner beauty. When you will be able to build a strong and self confident daughter, she will never seek outside for recognition. She will definitely come to you and share her problem.
