Common Mistakes Parents Make With Adolescents
Calvary Life Ministries
- Generalisation
- one size fits all, adopting instead of adapting methods and strategies to your child.
- Living Your Dreams/Life Through Your Child
- Insist on your terms, seeing and making your child an extension of yourself
- Emotional Blackmail
- set guilt traps by using emotions as an instrument
- Miss-communication
- missing out on listening
- missing the point
- misinterpreting what is heard
- missing the heart
- misusing and abusing words
- missing out on bringing resolution to the conversation
- Mistrust
- broken promises and lies
- unfulfilled expectations
- Comparing
- comparing to solicit change often does more damage and almost never yields the intended results
- Overprotecting
- Effects of overprotective parenting: anger, depression, rebellion, increased dependency, low self-esteem, emotional withdrawal, delayed spiritual growth
- Inattentive Parenting
- Neglect, lack of interest or un-involvement on the part of the parent
- Our Agenda vs God's Agenda
- Misguided attention. Preoccupied with mapping out a good, neat plan on how your child’s involvement and future should be, overlooking how God created your child to be.
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