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THEN

Listening to you say your first word – “mom.”  Watching you learn to crawl and then start walking on your 1st birthday as if you knew how to do it all along. Taking you to get your ears pierced and watching that terrified look on your face and reminding you that this is what you wanted.  Reading you bedtime stories until you could read on your own and then listening to you read them to me. 

NOW

Playfully fighting with you over the radio stations or songs that we play in the car. Loving the fact that you care about your grades in school and watching you continue to excel academically.  Giving you a little independence and dropping you off at high school football games and the mall so you can hang out with your friends.  Seeing you stand up for others who can’t stand up for themselves and listening to the compliments from other parents on your positive actions. Laughing with you on only things that the two of us think are funny and watching everyone else trying to figure out what the joke is.

As much as we may want to freeze time and keep our children young, we have to do our best to prepare them for adulthood.  Before they reach adulthood, of course, they have to through their teenage years.  Click on the video below to find out about a resource for parents to help their children navigate through the teenage years.

 

Center for Parent and Teen Communication

The Center for Parent and Teen Communication is a new, helpful resource for every parent with teenage children.  To get an idea of what type of advice and guidance can be found at the Center for Parent and Teen Communication, click HERE to read an article from the director, Dr. Ginsburg.

The Center for Parent and Teen Communication uses the best of science on youth development and parenting to support healthy family relationships and empower parents to effectively guide teens to be their best selves. 

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