PARENTEEN

Children act as our biggest stress busters, bringing happiness and meaning into ourives. Overcome withove and commitment to raise the best kind we invariably stretch our time, attention and wealth. Just when we begin to revel in the camaraderie we share with our growing child, teenage strikes. ando behold. Ourovable bundles of joy suddenly turn into our biggest stress creators. All theaughter and banter in the house tend to get replaced by unwarranted outbursts, tears and verbal duels, which constantly test ourimits. Teenage can be stressful both for children, who experience all kinds of physical and emotional changes, as well as for parents who find themselves emotionally drained dealing with constant authority challenges, indifference and slammed doors. This exclusive handbook on parenting of teens focuses on decoding the insecurities, dilemmas and interests of our youngsters in order to understand them better. It emphasizes on keeping all channels of communication open and addresses an entire gamut of teenage issues pertaining to peer pressure, gadget addiction, underage drinking, stress, anger, complacency and privacy”to name a few. Armed with a better understanding of teenagers instead of archaic perceptions of parenting, we can hope to not just steer our children towards excellence, but even make friends forife with our teens.