Is your child growing up faster than you are?Do you have a 10 year old who thinks she is 16?I do and i can relate to your pain.
Today's kids are growing up so much faster then we did.
How do we fight this rapid maturation?How can we link with other parents going through the same thing? Today's children are exposed to so much more than children 20, 30 or 40 years ago.
Everything you want to know is at your fingertips.
I have a wonderful 10 year old who wanted to learn how to make lipstick and face creams.
She searched online and before you know it, she had used all of the small plastic containers in the house to make her lip balms and facial creams.
While that choice wasn't a bad search, other searches by my children have exposed them to inappropriate websites or brought up conversations that I wasn't quite ready to face yet.
As a new parent of a teenager, I needed help from more experienced parents on how to handle a 16 year old boy.
My son is wonderful but he can frustrate me faster than anyone else I know.
He knows how to push my buttons and I needed other parents' insight on what they did with their kids.
Linking up with other parents helped me realize how fast my son was growing up and how I had to give him some freedom to be himself and learn from his own mistakes.
As his mother, I wanted to protect him from the pain that I had gone through growing up, but what my son is going through now is what I went through after high school.
Another sign of children growing up too fast.
Parent linking helped me realize that I had to adjust my views on what was appropriate for children today because children are growing up so fast.
Being a parent today is not the same as being a parent in the past.
In the past, most of the advice on child rearing came from the parents' parents rather than linking with other parents.
Families lived close together and the support was usually from those blood relatives.
Today's families not only don't live near their immediate relatives, today's families tend to count other parents as family.
Being a parent of a child who is maturing quickly can cause fear and stress for both the parent and the child.
Having someone to talk to who has gone through that process can help ease the emotions that are whirling around both the parent and the child.
As parents, we don't always know the right choices when raising children.
Being aware of the fact that children are growing up so much faster than previous generations helps as well as linking with other parents who are going through similar things.
Peer support works for children in schools, employees in the corporate world, and for parents who are raising these advanced children who are growing up too fast.
Today's kids are growing up so much faster then we did.
How do we fight this rapid maturation?How can we link with other parents going through the same thing? Today's children are exposed to so much more than children 20, 30 or 40 years ago.
Everything you want to know is at your fingertips.
I have a wonderful 10 year old who wanted to learn how to make lipstick and face creams.
She searched online and before you know it, she had used all of the small plastic containers in the house to make her lip balms and facial creams.
While that choice wasn't a bad search, other searches by my children have exposed them to inappropriate websites or brought up conversations that I wasn't quite ready to face yet.
As a new parent of a teenager, I needed help from more experienced parents on how to handle a 16 year old boy.
My son is wonderful but he can frustrate me faster than anyone else I know.
He knows how to push my buttons and I needed other parents' insight on what they did with their kids.
Linking up with other parents helped me realize how fast my son was growing up and how I had to give him some freedom to be himself and learn from his own mistakes.
As his mother, I wanted to protect him from the pain that I had gone through growing up, but what my son is going through now is what I went through after high school.
Another sign of children growing up too fast.
Parent linking helped me realize that I had to adjust my views on what was appropriate for children today because children are growing up so fast.
Being a parent today is not the same as being a parent in the past.
In the past, most of the advice on child rearing came from the parents' parents rather than linking with other parents.
Families lived close together and the support was usually from those blood relatives.
Today's families not only don't live near their immediate relatives, today's families tend to count other parents as family.
Being a parent of a child who is maturing quickly can cause fear and stress for both the parent and the child.
Having someone to talk to who has gone through that process can help ease the emotions that are whirling around both the parent and the child.
As parents, we don't always know the right choices when raising children.
Being aware of the fact that children are growing up so much faster than previous generations helps as well as linking with other parents who are going through similar things.
Peer support works for children in schools, employees in the corporate world, and for parents who are raising these advanced children who are growing up too fast.
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