I've really enjoyed the past 5 weeks and our parenting series "Every Kid Needs...." Parenting is the most exciting, fulfilling, and difficult job a person will ever do. But It's also a tremendous blessing when done well. I encourage every parent to continue to work on your parenting skills and seek out resources to will equip you better. It's a job I want to be successful at; I encourage you to do your best as well. One book I read while preparing this series of messages was "Kid CEO" by Ed Young. This proved to be a great resource and I encourage parents to give it a read. As always, if you want to listen to one or all of the messages in this series again, just go to www.centralassembly.net and you can listen for free. Below is the beginning to a series of articles by Dr. James Dobson about how to release your teenage kids into adulthood. Click HERE for more articles on this topic. Have a GREAT week!!!The most common mistake made by parents of older teenagers (16 to 19 years of age) is refusing to grant them the independence and maturity they require. Our inclination as loving guardians is to hold our kids too tightly, despite their attempts to squirm free. We try to make all their decisions, keep them snugly beneath our wings, and prevent even the possibility of failure.
And in so doing, we force our young adults into one of two destructive patterns: Either they passively accept our over protection and remain dependent "children" into adult life or they rise up in great wrath to reject our bondage and interference. They lose on both counts. On the one hand they become emotional cripples who are incapable of independent thought, and on the other they grow into angry, guilt-ridden adults who have severed ties with the family they need. Indeed, parents who refuse to grant appropriate independence to their older adolescents are courting disaster not only for their children but also for themselves.
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