Comments on: Stay Close to Your Tween/Teen by Being Direct http://www.earnestparenting.com/2010/01/13/stay-close-to-your-tweenteen-by-being-direct/ Encouraging heroes. You can be one too. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:05:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Amyhttp://www.earnestparenting.com/2010/01/13/stay-close-to-your-tweenteen-by-being-direct/comment-page-1/#comment-29677 Amy Mon, 29 Mar 2010 05:06:18 +0000 http://www.earnestparenting.com/?p=1488#comment-29677 Ajit, Is it ever possible for kids and parents to have the same experiences anymore? I look at people in college today and am just awed at the extreme changes in the world over just the past 20 years. There's no comparison between what I lived and what happens nowadays. At the same time, I do remember how certain situations felt and in those cases I can and do relate. So while my values are old-fashioned by current standards, I can still connect at the emotional level. I remember what rejection and insecurity feel like, for example. At the very least, we can meet there. Ajit, Is it ever possible for kids and parents to have the same experiences anymore? I look at people in college today and am just awed at the extreme changes in the world over just the past 20 years. There’s no comparison between what I lived and what happens nowadays. At the same time, I do remember how certain situations felt and in those cases I can and do relate. So while my values are old-fashioned by current standards, I can still connect at the emotional level. I remember what rejection and insecurity feel like, for example. At the very least, we can meet there.

]]> By: Ajithttp://www.earnestparenting.com/2010/01/13/stay-close-to-your-tweenteen-by-being-direct/comment-page-1/#comment-29600 Ajit Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:31:23 +0000 http://www.earnestparenting.com/?p=1488#comment-29600 "many teens feel like their parents are stupid and don’t understand what they’re going through"This could be true and also not true. There are many parents out there that live with old values, and didn't grow up the same way their kids are. They didn't experience or have to deal with the same life they're kids did. Without being out in the current real world they don't know what's normal and what's old fashioned. .-= Ajit´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.ourteenlife.info/2010/03/patience.html" rel="nofollow">Patience</a> =-. “many teens feel like their parents are stupid and don’t understand what they’re going through”

This could be true and also not true. There are many parents out there that live with old values, and didn’t grow up the same way their kids are. They didn’t experience or have to deal with the same life they’re kids did. Without being out in the current real world they don’t know what’s normal and what’s old fashioned.
.-= Ajit´s last blog ..Patience =-.

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