This document discusses how to maintain a healthy relationship with parents as a teenager. Some key aspects of a healthy parent-teen relationship include being able to be yourself around your parents, enjoying spending time with them, feeling comfortable talking openly with them about various topics, and trusting them with problems and secrets. The document provides tips for teenagers such as lessening lies, appreciating parents, remembering what they have done, avoiding personal attacks, and listening to their point of view during arguments. Maintaining a healthy relationship with parents can benefit teenagers by making them less likely to engage in risky behaviors and helping parents understand and trust them more.

1. Maintaining a Healthy Relationship
with Parents

2. • Friends come and go but your parents
will always be your
parents.
• It will make talking to them seriously,
asking for their
advice or even for help with some
problems easier
• Your parents will be able to understand
you better, thus
less misunderstandings

3. Relationship - ''a state of connectedness between people
(especially an emotional connection)''
 You can be yourself when you’re around them.
 You enjoy spending time with them and don’t feeling pressured to
 You might feel comfortable enough to talk to them openly and honestly about
school, friends, problems and occasionally, even sex and drugs.
 You feel that you can trust them with your problems and some secrets.
 You consider and respect their opinions and advice.
 You respecting the fact that they are your parents
Signs of a Healthy Relationship with
Parents

4. How to have a
better
relationship with
To have aParents
better relationship with
parents, a teenager could try:
• To lessen or get rid of lies
• Thanking/Appreciating them
• Remembering the things they
have done for you

5. To deal better with arguments, you could try these tips:
• Don’t take it personally
• Avoid putting down your parents beliefs
• Use more “I” statements
• Listen to their point of view

6. Benefits
• Research says that teens are a lot less likely to have problems related to drugs,
alcohol, smoking, sex, and truancy if they have a healthy relationship with their
parents
• Your parents understand you more and are willing to trust you.
• Fewer arguments, problems and misunderstandings between you and your parents

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