Ways To Be Connected With Your Teen

Create rituals to connect with your TEEN.

To nurture your relationship with your teen, it is essential that you both find ways to enjoy each other's company. Making time to be present with your teen, supports the opportunity for them to be open with you.

There’s plenty you can do to build a healthy and trusting relationship with your teen. Sharing in a new experience with your teen is a fantastic equaliser that provides “no-pressure” time to connect with a parent.

We at Shine Mind body Spirit curate many bespoke offerings to cultivate family connections. And being parents of teenage children ourselves , we have a deep passion and purpose for this valuable work.

It takes a desire and commitment to nourish and support your relationship with your children, especially as their growing needs rapidly change as they themselves move through their unique growth cycles. Not to mention the changes in our own cycles of life, which is an important consideration to take into account.

Cultivating Family Connections

It takes a desire and commitment to nourish and support your relationship with your children.

How Im teaching my CHILDREN to invest in self-care now

I want my children to know how important it is to our wellbeing to take care of yourself and be the most important person in your own life. This is something that took me years to learn because what I saw was self-sacrifice and giving your all for the people you love. But I want to set a different example for my children and to break that cycle of self-sacrifice

It is a critical time for children to learn the importance of taking care of themselves and their communities. Self-care can help children of all ages become more introspective and aware of their physical and emotional needs. It can also prepare them to effectively handle future stressors. Even small acts of self-care and self-help can decrease stress, improve relationships, and promote wellness of the body and mind.

Make time for you and them

We can model self-care by acknowledging your own needs as a parent.

How to explain and role model self-care to your children

Parents, educators, and caregivers can teach their children healthy self-care habits at any age. Adults can do so by helping children schedule self-care breaks/check-ins throughout the day, enacting daily or weekly check-ins throughout the day/week, and role modelling. We can model self-care by acknowledging your own needs as a parent. children often learn more from what parents do rather than what they say!

Make Time

To help you connect better with your teen, you need an open mind, a sense of equality, and a supportive attitude. Remember those three things, and you'll have a closer relationship in no time.

Join us at MAFs in Emerald for our Mother and teen wellbeing event.

Held Friday evening between 6.30pm to 8.30pm May 12th 2023

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