sept.  2011

Are we old enough to almost have a teenager?  It’s amazing how everything shifts as your kids get older.  You have to let control go, still guiding and giving boundaries of course, but letting them learn their own natural consequences, instead of as a parent, protecting them like we do when they are children.  It’s harder than any other parenting I’ve done.  It’s even harder to not argue with a teenager.  I am learning so much from Love and Logic, and if you have a teenager, I would say this is a MUST!  We don’t want to rule with an iron fist, or be a helicopter parent.  There is so much valuable information to help us learn what to say and do as our children become more independent, and learn the consequences of their choices, whether they be good or bad.

Here is an excellent article out of the Ensign…it goes right along with Love and Logic.

Helping without Hovering – Ensign Mar. 2012
http://www.lds.org/ensign/2012/03/helping-without-hovering?lang=eng&cid=email-shared