6 Tips to Give Your Teenager Dating Advice
4. Maintain follow up
Don’t expect your teen to come and tell you about his or her love life. In their teenage, kids hate talking to their parents about such things and they like having their privacy. As a parent, it is you who have to take the initiative of delving into your child’s dating scene. Without coming across as intrusive, ask your teen about his or her date occasionally. After you have given him or her dating advice, maintain follow ups to check how your teen is doing.
5. Let your teen do the talking
Don’t be under the false impression that once you give your teen basic dating advice, your job is done. You have to listen to what your child says and get his or her inputs. Your advice will be relevant only when it strikes a chord with what your teen has to say.
6. Have multiple talks instead of one long discussion
Kids in their teenage are known to have the attention span of a fly. If you go on your own trip about giving them dating advice in one long discussion, they may not be able to absorb all that you are saying. Keep your discussion organic and break it up into numerous small and casual chats. Use your judgment and discretion about when you should stop or start giving advice.
