parenting MONDAYS ~ teenage behaviour not intentional

As it is holiday time and we have our lovely children at home. I have two teenage daughters at home and at the moment we are up the central coast with my step daughter and her gorgeous little 2 year old Montana. I have a 17 year old who will be enjoying this break as when she returns back to school Year 12 will commence and the pressure will be on, not from me, from herself. My 14 year old will just chill and hopefully catch up with some friends ready for the last term of year 8. 

I believe holiday time is the time where we need reminding that there behaviour, mood swings are not intentional. 

Teenage behavioural issues, are not intentional or done out of  sheer malice. A teenager is a child  growing into adulthood. Teenagers need their parents to be parents as they have many friends at school. Teenage behaviour like all behaviour is changeable, because the majority of behaviour is a pattern or a habit.

Like a toddler who needs boundaries, a teenager needs them too. Like a toddler, a teenager that hears to many ‘No’s’ becomes desensitized to them.  Teenage behaviour is affected by may factors like their hormones, parents, peer pressure, school, social media, and regular media  TV shows, movies, music and magazines.

The majority of teenagers do want an easy life and to get on with their parents. But they are losing their innocence and naivety of childhood and  also get hit by the fact that this is what life is really about, it is not all fun and games. Many teens I speak to are disheartened with the realisation of the real world as they step over into the threshhold  of adulthood.

Teenagers love to talk and at times that is all they need, a listening ear to help guide them through the whirlwind of emotions they are feeling.

The teenage years do pass just like the toddler years, it can get bumpy, but you can have some fantastic moments too from Easy Peasy Kid.