Transcript Accepting the whole person of your adolescent

Thinking about Values
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During adolescence, teens will come to understand that
there exist points of view other than their own and their
family’s.
Teens need parents to provide ongoing information and
support around decision making, values, skills, goals, and
interpreting and navigating the larger world teaching by
example and ongoing dialogue.
It is important for parents to engage in discussions around
moral and social issues, taking clear positions, while
allowing teens to develop and express positions of their
own.
Thinking about Values
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Parents should affirm and maintain family
activities, rituals, and traditions.
Discuss and offer frameworks for understanding
and challenging negative experiences based on
race, ethnicity, gender, family structure, sexual
orientation, class, immigrant status, emotional
and physical illness, and disability.
Thinking about Values
Strategies for parents:
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Set a good example around risk taking,
health habits, and emotional control.
Express personal positions about moral and
spiritual issues, including issues of ethnicity and
gender
Model the kind of adult relationships that
you would like your teen to have.
Thinking about Values
Strategies for parents
 Maintain or establish traditions including family,
cultural, and/or religious rituals.
 Support teens’ education.
 teens get information that will address questions
they have about employment, religion, politics,
relationships, and other areas of interest or
concern to them.
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Give teens opportunities for self-exploration.