Behaviour
Navigating Frenemies, Cliques and Bants with Your Teen
Teenage friendships change by the week, so the most useful thing you can be is someone your teen can always come back to.
- 19 minutes
- 7 modules
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Listen to your teen without rushing to fix things or take sides
- Avoid criticising a friend who may be back in favour next week
- Ask questions that help your teen decide what they want to happen next
- Help your teen separate what they can change from what they can't
- Keep regular, low-key contact so your teen knows you're there
About this course
Today's enemy is next week's best friend. So when your teen is fuming about someone, the golden rule is never to join in, however much they seem to invite it. If they make up, you're the one left on the wrong side.
Listen to understand rather than to reply, and don't worry if the same story comes round three times. Ask "what do you hope will happen next?", or if they can't say, "what do you hope doesn't?", and help turn the answer into a next step. Help them work out whether the problem is the situation or how they feel about it, and see it from the other person's side.
Keep in touch over the small stuff, even by text from the next room, so they know where to find you when it matters.
7 modules
Open in order
- 1 min
Introduction
- 3 min
Let them talk
- 4 min
Never put their friends down
- 3 min
Find out what they hope will happen next
- 6 min
Look inwards as well as outwards
- 3 min
Check in often without judgement or expectation
- 2 min
Wrap up