Power Parenting is possible!
It IS possible to have an actual conversation with your kids, even your teenagers.
Michelle Dunn, a Counselor & coordinator of the Regeneration Ministries PG series for parents, is on the podcast offering tips on powerful parenting through topics such as school, sports, and even sex.
Parents need to push past the anticipated eye roll or angsty attitude to keep connecting. As much as they pull away, moms and dads need to lean into their teen’s life, learn their interests, and ask questions. The big kids are not the only ones who need to learn how to do things differently.
Parents need to shift and grow too.
As you’ll learn in this episode, there’s more power in parenting from a place of relationship versus a place of dictatorship. Learn how to develop a real connection with your teenager. Listen for words like margin and agenda and comparison.
Take it all in. You’ve got this.
Highlights:
Our kids are going to hear and get information from sources other than us
If we don’t have that relationship with them we miss out on the opportunity to influence
If we’re only coming to our kids where we want to mold, shape, change their thinking and their behaviors; they’re going to be fatigued by that
Homework:
Make Margin (room) in your day to talk with your teen about the difficult things. Don’t let fatigue keep you from engaging with your teen.
Try having a conversation without an Agenda.
Deal with your past: address your own sexual dysfunction, get help, don’t panic/freeze/avoid
How am I wired? How is my kid wired? What are we good at? Use that as your framework to move forward in building a relationship FREE of comparison. Be you and let your kid be him/herself.
Outsource: Encourage them to connect with other people
Ideal v reality: media, peers, family give us a picture of what it looks like to interact with our teens. Try not to be tricked into thinking that it’s always good and it’s supposed to look a certain way.
Extras/Resources:
https://www.regenerationministries.org/pg/
Transcription:
Full Transcription Available here
Original music by Shannon Smith. Audio engineering by Gabriel @ DelMar Sound Recording.
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