Understand and Parent Your Adolescent

Adolescent Adolescent Understand and Parent Your Adolescent

If all goes well, at the end of this period, your adolescent will be ready to make her way in the world. However, she will continue to depend on your backup and support. Your Child’s Growth and Development  In early adolescence, the theme is autonomy. Your child focuses on peers and learning to make it in a teenage world. In later adolescence, the themes are intimacy and identity. Adolescents begin to form a picture of who they will be as adults. Adolescents find ways to be both close with others and separate. Boys and girls grapple with sexual identity as well as “finding themselves” in general. How to Parent Your Adolescent Find the nebulous middle ground between being controlling on the one hand and throwing away all controls on the other. Assume that your child wants to please you and master what you find important. Give privileges and autonomy as your child becomes skilled and responsible. Talk and listen; consult and support to work out expectations and limits. How to Parent Your Adolescent with Feeding Continue to have family meals; retain leadership with family food selection. Help your child to know what she knows about her intuitive eating capabilities. Give the expectation that your child will feed herself responsibly, including participating in family meals. Teach your child to plan family and independent meals as well as to learn to prepare food. For a comprehensive set of educational materials that teach stage-related feeding and solve feeding problems, see ELLYN SATTER'S FEEDING IN PRIMARY CARE PREGNANCY THROUGH PRESCHOOL: Easy-to-Read Reproducible Masters (4th grade reading level, English and Spanish) and ELLYN SATTER'S NUTRITION AND FEEDING FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN: Handout Masters (7th grade reading level, English only). Copyright © 2005 by Ellyn Satter. For more about feeding your school-age child, see Ellyn Satter’s Your Child's Weight: Helping Without Harming or www.EllynSatter.com. For permission to reproduce this handout, call (800)808-7976 or e-mail info@ellynsatter.com

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