As our kids grow it becomes our responsibility to prepare them for the real world. Since they are to be prepared to lead their life on their own, it becomes essential to take out them from the cosy aura of guardianship. It’s the parent’s responsibility to make them understand the reality of the world and extend the support.
See, there are two ways of learning;
- Learning by doing,
- Second learn from elder’s experience and imbibe them.
The second one is better, as it is easy transfer of knowledge added with experiences. Your job is to create a base and the rest they can learn by themselves as they go along. It is really confusing at their age to choose between right and wrong and to choose the one in their journey of life.
So here I am with 7 suggestions that will surely help you;
- Goal setting – Teens are mostly influenced by social media and their goals are unrealistic. They don’t have idea how impractical goals lead to nowhere. Ask your teens about their goals tell them the difference between their hobbies and realistic goals. If you think your teen’s hobby can be adopted as a carrier then help them to nourish it in a right way. Here I would like to mention that a basic educational qualification with respectable academic score is very much essential for every carrier and understanding real life.
- Navigation skill – As driving skill make your kids independent and confident, teach them how to navigate. They will need to move to different places for their studies and all. So it is desired for them to understand how to use GPS system. Moreover it is must for them to know how to drive in traffic and be patient and apply defensive driving skills.
- Teach them to control emotion – Hormonal influence is at peak in this age group, full of emotion, easily gets diverted in the influence of other. As a parent we should guide them to control their emotion be it anger, relationship, conflict in peer group or any situation. Best way in this case is first wait, understand and then react works well. Teach them to deal their emotion in a healthy way.
- Involve them in household management – Finally everyone manages their own house so why not teaching it at this point of age. Involve them to keep their rooms tidy, engage them in small household chores irrespective of their gender. Make your monthly budget with them they should know the importance of money. Trust me it works… at least next time while making their shopping list they will surely rethink about the items.
- Importance of relationship – Besides core family your teens should be knowing the importance of the peripheral family members also. Human are born to be social and your teens are future society members. As most of the time kids copy us besides following our instruction. This behavior they will definitely learn from you. So, it’s in your hand…
- Transfer your religious culture – We all know how to worship, how to pray. Many habits we have acquired from our parents now is the time to transfer them to our next generation. Believe me you learn a lot when you get close to your religion. This is not merely a column to be ticked while filling a form, it is our identity and we all should feel proud and respect it. Imbibing your religion develops faith and makes you calm. It gives strength in hardship.
- Develop civic sense – Now this means a lot. These teens are future of our country and being a civilian we should know the rules of a society and strictly follow them. These are very small thing as following traffic rules, not throwing garbage, respect people, help others, being nice to the needy people, always stand in a queue to avoid clutter etc. the list is too long and I think we all know but at some point, forget to follow because others are not following. Be a nice role model.
Imbibe these mentioned 7 habits life of teen and you will confident of them. Making you relaxed as you see them grow as a fantastic citizen…
Keep relishing your life with all the good you can do to the generations to come.