358: Creating Golden Moments with Teenagers // Saren Eyre Loosli
May 6, 2024
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Saren Eyre Loosli, a mentor with 15 years of experience, shares insights on connecting with teenagers. Topics include navigating challenges with teenagers, creating meaningful moments, embracing children's interests, and prioritizing emotional connections with teens. Learn how to strengthen the parent-child bond and cherish golden moments with your teenagers.
Making time for tuck-in moments with teenagers can strengthen the parent-teen bond through brief connection rituals like kisses and compliments.
Respecting and engaging with teens' passions fosters deeper connections and creates golden moments of shared experiences.
Deep dives
Prioritize Tuck-In Time with Teenagers
Making time for tuck-in moments with teenagers, even in a different way from childhood routines, can strengthen the bond between parents and older children. Despite initial reluctance, embracing these brief connection moments at the end of the day, such as a kiss and a sincere compliment, can foster a sense of acknowledgment and warmth between parents and teens.
Respect and Engage in Their Abilities and Interests
Respecting and getting excited about teenagers' passions and skills can deepen the connection and create golden moments. Encouraging and showing interest in what they care about, whether shared interests or new pursuits, can lead to meaningful interactions and shared experiences that enhance the parent-teen relationship.
Communicate Through Physical Affection and Emotional Support
To navigate the emotional landscape of teenage years, prioritizing physical affection, listening more, and talking less can create space for teens to express their feelings. Hugging, offering touch, and allowing them to experience their emotions can lead to deeper emotional connections and understanding, fostering moments of closeness and trust in the parent-teen relationship.
Journal Offers Opportunity to Treasure Moments
The Flex of Gold journal provides a valuable tool for mothers to capture and cherish fleeting moments with their children, regardless of their age. By reserving a copy of the journal, mothers can engage in a gratitude practice that highlights the beauty of everyday interactions with their children, fostering a sense of mindfulness and appreciation throughout their motherhood journey.
Do you struggle to know how to connect with your teenager? Man, oh, man. The hormones, attitudes, busy schedules, still underdeveloped brains coupled with the overdeveloped longing for independence - sheesh! If you are going through a rocky time with your teenager, you are going to love what I learned from my mentor of almost 15 years, Saren Eyre Loosli.
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