Parenting Strategies

Everyone has their own ideas about parenting teens. However, knowing what to do to build your relationship with them can be unclear. The following resources provide ideas and strategies for building your relationship with your teen, and getting through the ups and downs.

Adolescence – Adjusting To Life With Teenagers
Ideas and ways to maintain a relationship with your child through their teens.

Provided by Everybody, a consumer health information resource owned and published by CMPMedica (NZ) Ltd.

Parenting Resources
A series of downloadable information pamphlets on subjects of interest to young people and their parents. Also provides an email address for parents wanting specific assistance and advice.

Provided by Youthline, an organisation providing an integrated response to youth, family, and community needs.

Tough Love – Frequently Asked Questions
About the ToughLove Programme – when you might use it, and how it works.

Provided by the ToughLove Programme, a non-profit organisation providing support and education that gives parents confidence to cope with unacceptable adolescent behaviour.

Families with Teenagers
Strategies for building the best relationships you can with your teens, and for coping with upheaval. Includes information on communication, testing boundaries, sexuality, troubled teens, and supporting teens when parents separate.

Provided by Relationship Services, a leading provider of counselling and education services in New Zealand, helping people to build better relationships.

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