What do you know about your teenager? Teens world sometimes get very complex and difficult to understand. Several changes occurs in children as they grow from been kids into teens and what we know about our children often determine how well our relationship goes with them. Amongst the so many things we need to know a few of them are essential in helping us getting out of their faces into their hearts. The following seven points are just few among the several important things we need to know about our children and especially teenagers.

1. Know what kind of parent you want to be. This has been referred to as

parental reflection, it reveals why or what are the driving forces of your

behaviour as a parent. Fear, failure and disappointments can be great obstacles to genuine parental reflection.

Parents who don’t reflect often experience no growth or improvement in their

relationship with their children, responses to their children based on their

parental needs, emotional distance from these kids.

2. Know how your teenager perceives the world around them. To succeed in

doing this, parents must understand changes their kids and teens are going

through. These changes in them also changes what the world around them

expects from them.

3. Know changes expected from your teens by world around them as they grow. Changes in appearance, thought pattern, and relationships with others around

them.

4. Know the changes your teens see in the world own around. These includes

changes in their understanding of what is called reality, changes in how things

can turn out to be or what life may bring their way and how they can survive

them.

5. Know how changes in world around affect children. These changes around

often affect their self confidence, steadiness and feeling of been secured.

6. Know that there are certain unseen forces that move teens into action.

Teen’s action though highly unfathomable are influenced by certain guiding

principles, fundamental beliefs, and past experiences.

7. Know that changes that are emotional, intellectual, physical and spiritual in

children may cause a gradual separation & distance between children and

parents. Though these changes appear to be natural they are alarming to parents.