Annoying But Not Serious (ABNS)

'ABNS - (Annoying But Not Serious) - a behaviour phrase from a popular parent group that I teach to parents of tweens and teenagers - 'Engaging Adolescents.'

Let the “annoying but not serious” things your children and adolescents do go - (leaving dishes in bedroom from time to time, hair colour, earrings, low level emotions, sighs, forgetting to brush teeth every once in a while, forgetting to do homework, saying "whatever," clothing, how they emptied the dishwasher, leaving a wet towel on the bathroom floor from time to time, etc.) - these are small fish!

Instead Focus on what behaviours you do WANT - building their characters, integrity and values - (honesty, obedience, personal hygiene, respect, turning their technology off when the alarm goes off, helping w/chores, education and academics, discernment, etc.)

Parents need to communicate to their children the unacceptable behaviours they will never tolerate, skipping school, cursing, violence and aggression to others and self, drugs/alcohol, etc.

Parenting can be hard! Kids don't come with a playbook.

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Contact me to schedule your first Engaging Adolescent parent session. 0466 193 355