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Some teenagers are simply quiet, and there is nothing wrong with that. Others are quiet because speaking feels genuinely dangerous, and telling the two apart from the outside is harder
Most parents have offered a coping skill and watched it go nowhere. You suggest a walk, a breathing exercise, a break from the phone, and your teenager looks at you
Anger is the emotion that most often sends parents looking for help, and for understandable reasons. Slammed doors, shouted words that cannot be unsaid, a teenager who goes from calm
Your teenager cannot seem to focus. Homework drags on for hours, their mind drifts in class, they are restless and forgetful, and their grades are slipping. It looks a lot
If you have ever told an anxious teenager to just take a deep breath, you have probably watched it land with a thud. Maybe they rolled their eyes, snapped that
There is a particular kind of moment every parent of a teenager comes to recognize. Your teen is completely overwhelmed, crying or raging or shutting down, and every reasonable thing
Most parents have watched some version of this happen. Your teenager clearly wants something, needs something, or is upset about something, and instead of saying so, they slam a door,
Maybe you know exactly what happened. A car accident, the loss of someone they loved, something they saw or experienced that no teenager should have to carry. Or maybe you
Maybe your teen has started skipping family dinners, or you have noticed food disappearing from the pantry overnight. Maybe they talk about their body in a way that worries you,
Few things wear a parent down quite like watching a capable teenager seem to care about nothing. The homework that sits untouched, the bedroom they will not leave, the shrug
Sara Holt, PHR, SHRM-CP
Director of People and Culture
HavenRise Academy of Jacksonville
T: (904) 207-7532
SHolt@havenriseacademy.com
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