Easier Parenting Your Middle School Teen

Stop repeating your parenting mistakes. It’s simple to take a 5 minute break from your hassled pressured life to focus on a parenting issue and invent a single action you can take today. Taking one small action now will make parenting your Middle School teen easier.

 

I was stuck

 

Living in the 21^st century is so hassled that, without realizing it, I was parenting like a robot. I repeated the same reactions, same mistakes, over and over. The days rolled by; the weeks rolled by and rarely did I stop to quietly observe what is happening, what I was doing and if it was working.

 

The key problem is that I got caught up with the merciless onrush of time and the pressure of papers, bills and promises. I was overwhelmed; I felt like I couldn’t even take a single moment to stop and reprogram myself.

 

That’s not true at all!

 

I discovered an easy solution

 

One day I was waiting for a doctor’s appointment and I allowed myself something I never allow myself at work or at home—I just closed my eyes and let myself breathe. As I settled into this space I found it so calming and peaceful. I began to discover how tense my forehead was, my jaw, my neck. My heart beat like I was being chased.

 

Then I focused on a parenting issue that hounded me: my Middle Schooler was addicted to computer games. I saw myself acting out all the solutions I had tried and didn’t work: shouting, threatening, scolding, storytelling, joking and begging. I stayed in that space until I got an idea of how to do something new and also something old, but in a new way.

 

When I got home I tried out both solutions. One worked better than the other.

 

You can always fit in a 5 minute break

 

My great discovery was that I could stop the rush and focus on a problem any time I wanted to. No matter how much pressure was on me. There is always 5 minutes for a calming break. And that break creates a clear space where I discover solutions I didn’t see before.

 

You can do it now:

 

1- Stop. Close your eyes. Breathe deeply and slowly.

2- Close off the next 5 minutes for yourself and nobody else.

3- What incident with your middle school teen comes up for you?

4- Without rushing, flow through that incident and reflect: what single action can you do to improve that issue one little bit…TODAY!

 

Taking a 5 minute break calms me and makes the day easier. I can also use the break to focus on a problem and gain insights and solutions. You can, too.

 

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Enjoy yourself! From Nitsan and Caroline Gaibel, founders of EasierParentingMiddleSchool.com.