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Jonathan Bosworth
Counselling Psychologist
Johannesburg
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​Melville
Johannesburg
2092

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Email: jonathan.bosworth@gmail.com

Raising Teens Without Ruining Your Marriage

3/6/2013

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Parenting children at any age can be stressful and difficult for parents.  Dealing with this stress often impacts on the parents relationship with each other.  Adolescence is commonly experienced as one of the more difficult developmental periods to parent.  It hence may be more stressful and have a greater impact on the parents relationship.  However, it is not just the stress of parenting teenagers that may increase this impact but the very nature of the developmental issues that adolescents are working through.  

Psychologist Suzanne Phillips suggests three guiding principals (balance, communication and connection) that specifically assist with your teenager's navigation of their developmental tasks as well help strengthen your relationship with your partner.  In Phillips' article (Raising Teens Without Ruining Your Marriage: Three Principles), she provides a useful overview of the difficulties underlying adolescence and how these may guide how teenagers may feel and behave.  She relates these developmental challenges to  the specific tasks parents of teenagers face and how they can practically address these while strengthening their own relationship.  She also emphasise how rewarding and growth-promoting this period may be for you, your relationship and your adolescent: 

"Whatever else life offers, raising a teen will probably offer you the greatest moments of joy and the greatest moments of stress. As such it can invite problems that strain your marriage and possibilities that enhance your parenting and partnering."

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