10 Ways To Ruin Your Relationship With Your Teen

Maintaining a healthy relationship with your teen takes effort. All parents make mistakes, and despite our best intentions our words and actions can strengthen the relationship or break it. In this episode, we discuss 10 ways to ruin your relationship with your teen and how to avoid them.

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So I’ve always been really intentional about how I communicate with my daughter to nurture our relationship. And while I don’t think there are any parents who are trying to ruin their relationship with their kids on purpose, there are some that are doing just that. In fact, I’m sure there many more than 10 ways to ruin your relationship with your teen but this list is a pretty good place to start.

In this episode, we discuss…

Ways that you embarrass your kids
What happens when you are besties with your kids
Why you need to encourage independence
How your criticism affects their self-esteem
What happens when you compare your kids to others
How to give your kids room to make mistakes
Different ways to support your kids
Why your kids don’t share their feelings with you
How to build trust with your kids

It’s not easy to hear that you might be the reason that you don’t have the best relationship with your teen. But if you are willing to admit your mistakes and be more intentional with your words and actions, you can work to rebuild your relationship with your teen. It’s never too late to try. There’s always hope that you can make it better.

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Simone Jones Tyner

My name is Simone, and I'm addicted to sharing! On this blog, I share recipes, shopping tips, relationship and parenting advice, a joke, an opinion and just about everything in between. In between sharing, I run an integrated marketing agency where my love of details and straight lines are put to good use. But my most important job is being a wife and mother to a teenaged daughter who still seems to like me—for now anyway.