Parenting

Teenage years are special. They’re sensitive — a stage where individuality begins to take shape. It’s interesting to see this phase through both the child’s eyes and the parents’. Parents, who once felt the same fire within themselves at that age, tend to respond to it in their own children with denial or fear. Of course, times have changed, and kids today have far more exposure than we did — …

A good friend of mine, Monika, came to see me recently looking anxious and worried, asking for help. She told me she didn’t know how to handle the changes she was seeing in her daughter, and feared something was wrong. Her daughter, Preet, had become aggressive and was losing self-confidence — which surprised me, because I’d always known Preet to be sharp, confident, and outgoing. Monika explained that Preet had …