Jay Fitter MFT, author of Respect Your Children: A Practical Guide to Effective Parenting, spoke to Lon Woodbury, the host of Parent Choices for Struggling Teens on L.A. Talk Radio, about the 5 essential issues to discuss with your teen and tween.
Lon Woodbury is an Independent Educational Consultant who has worked with families and struggling teens since 1984. He is the founder of Struggling Teens, Inc., and the publisher of Woodbury Reports.
A Brief Bio On Jay Fritter
Jay Fitter is a Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT). He has 20 years experience as a family therapist and parenting workshop leader. His book Respect Your Children: A Practical Guide to Effective Parenting outlines how parents can effectively communicate with their children by talking and listening to their answers and by caring for them with love, instead of obligation or resentment.
An Interview On The 5 Essential Issues To Discuss With Your Teen And Tween
Parents, Jay believes, need to discuss the following five things with their children: clothing fashion, school work, boyfriends/girlfriends, peer pressure, and rules and regulations. Parents simply can't afford to be oblivious about these things because they deeply impact their teens and tweens interests. This is because High School can be considered a slice of society, representing various social groups. The students children associated with affected their life and career choices. Children react much more emotionally than adults. They might even be suicidal over issues like a relationship break up or cyberbullying.
Parents should express their concern when they see dangerous clues and talk openly about it with their children. Jay suggested that parents need to learn to listen if they hope to develop good rapport with their children. It was often too late to begin a relationship with their children after a crisis.
Parents, Jay pointed out, need to be patient with their child's changing behavior, show consistent caring, and set clear boundaries. They also need to be able to differentiate between discipline and punishment. Punishment is reactive and merely vents frustrated behavior while discipline is something that has been thought through ahead of time.
Jay concluded the interview by briefly touching on a few more themes: how parents could help their child cope with a relationship breakup, how parents could help their children combat peer pressure, and how parents could communicate clear rules and expectations. His book, Respect Your Children: A Practical Guide to Effective Parenting, covers these ideas in detail.
Lon Woodbury is an Independent Educational Consultant who has worked with families and struggling teens since 1984. He is the founder of Struggling Teens, Inc., and the publisher of Woodbury Reports.
A Brief Bio On Jay Fritter
Jay Fitter is a Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT). He has 20 years experience as a family therapist and parenting workshop leader. His book Respect Your Children: A Practical Guide to Effective Parenting outlines how parents can effectively communicate with their children by talking and listening to their answers and by caring for them with love, instead of obligation or resentment.
An Interview On The 5 Essential Issues To Discuss With Your Teen And Tween
Parents, Jay believes, need to discuss the following five things with their children: clothing fashion, school work, boyfriends/girlfriends, peer pressure, and rules and regulations. Parents simply can't afford to be oblivious about these things because they deeply impact their teens and tweens interests. This is because High School can be considered a slice of society, representing various social groups. The students children associated with affected their life and career choices. Children react much more emotionally than adults. They might even be suicidal over issues like a relationship break up or cyberbullying.
Parents should express their concern when they see dangerous clues and talk openly about it with their children. Jay suggested that parents need to learn to listen if they hope to develop good rapport with their children. It was often too late to begin a relationship with their children after a crisis.
Parents, Jay pointed out, need to be patient with their child's changing behavior, show consistent caring, and set clear boundaries. They also need to be able to differentiate between discipline and punishment. Punishment is reactive and merely vents frustrated behavior while discipline is something that has been thought through ahead of time.
Jay concluded the interview by briefly touching on a few more themes: how parents could help their child cope with a relationship breakup, how parents could help their children combat peer pressure, and how parents could communicate clear rules and expectations. His book, Respect Your Children: A Practical Guide to Effective Parenting, covers these ideas in detail.
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Find out more about Struggling Teens. Lon Woodbury has the recorded the entire interview on his L.A. Talk Radio show for people to listen to at any time.
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