Being a teenager is rough. That is where these life tips for your teenager come in handy.
I asked seasoned moms to share their best life tips for teenagers!
When I was around twelve, I went through a phase.
I started wearing my brother’s baggy t-shirts, his flannel shirts, and my baggy jeans. I also wore my hair down on my face.
If you were to ask my mother right now what she thought about that stage, she would tell you it drove her crazy.
She fought the urge to pull my hair back out of my eyes daily. This stage lasted around 6 months, maybe close to a year. Then I came out of it. I started pulling my hair back out of my eyes and wearing clothes that weren’t so baggy.
What I didn’t realize then, but I can see clearly now as a preadolescent girl, going through puberty, hating how my body was changing.
I wanted to hide. I felt awkward and strange. My mom understood this. That was why she fought the urge. She knew it would pass eventually.
I know that I was still technically a preteen at this age.
The women in my family go through puberty early. I might add that the hormones and changes hit us (unfairly) before many other girls. There is no doubt about it. The teenage years are raw and harsh for many.
Your body is changing.
Your emotions are out of whack.
Often you may seem like a crazy person because your hormones are causing you to feel a little too intensely. So much so that sometimes it becomes impossible to see straight.
Your brain is not fully developed yet (it doesn’t do that until you are 25 years old, did you know that?!)
This can mean that as a teenager when you believe you are making a rational decision based on facts, you are acting out of emotions and immaturity.
You are under peer pressure, especially if you attend public school. There is pressure to want other kids your age to like you and to fit in. If that does not happen, you may feel victimized and depressed.
You may feel like an outsider or as though something is wrong with you.
You’re starting to notice the opposite sex and want them to like you. Possibly causing yourself to compromise who you are and what values you hold dear to you.
I went through a period around sixteen where I was prepared to put my entire future on the line for a boy. Even when I received life tips from my family, I thought I knew everything.
A boy who was not in any way good for me. Why was I willing to do this? It was because I thought I knew everything.
I thought I was in love. I wanted to stick one to my parents, possibly? I’m not sure. They both saw the path I was headed down, said no way, and stopped our relationship.
I was angry for a while. Then I grew up. As all teenagers do. I realized my parents were right, and I thanked them and apologized.
The teenage years are a difficult time period for many people.
You are stuck between being a child and being an adult.
Regardless of life tips, there are even more pressures on today’s teenagers because of the overabundance of access to social media and other people.
None of these factors are necessarily bad, except peer pressure, but they make the teenage years hard for some because they all happen. The. Same. Time.
I can tell you, as a teenager, I believed I was right about everything, and my mom and dad were, well, wrong.
Fast forward about 15 years, and now, at 30, I can hardly say that my parents knew what they were talking about.
Do you want to know how I know they were smarter than I thought they were? They, too, were teenagers once! So were your parents and your grandparents.
Before you know it, if you aren’t already a teenager’s parent, you will have a teen who may think they know everything.
I asked around 20 people to share what they would say to their teenage selves if they could go back and give themselves a piece of advice. They gave wonderful life tips for your teenager!
Here are 20 great life tips for your teenager they had to offer!
1. Try out for anything and everything you are interested in. Don’t be afraid to fail or be afraid to succeed.
2. Listen to your parents. They actually DO know more than you …
3. Don’t worry about what everyone thinks. Study hard. Take school seriously. Mama knows best – listen to her. Know your worth.
4. Listen to your mother and father. They really know more than you. Don’t date that boy. Try harder.
5. Be patient, and this will pass. Maybe if I learned it earlier in life, God wouldn’t have to keep teaching me over and over.
6. Stop quitting. And try harder.
7. Ask many questions, have fun, do activities, and be a kid while you still can.
8. Don’t move out just because your 18. You have to pay your own bills soon enough. Don’t rush to be an adult.
9. Don’t try and be the tough girl all the time – spend more time with your parents, who are the only ones who have your back – and find your husband sooner!
10. You are perfect exactly as you are.
11. Stay away from the boy! Study and try harder in school. Just stay away from the boy.
12. Be a kid, don’t rush, soak the teenage years in, be adventurous, meet new ppl, and listen to your parents ❤️
13. Learn what a FICO score is and why it’s important. Guard your credit.
14. Stay away from the wrong crowd, be yourself!!
15. Keep yourself pure!
16. It’s not the end of the world. It may seem like it, but there is a whole future ahead of you; just breath. It’s not the end of the world.
17. You are special, just as you are. Don’t try to change yourself.
18. I would tell myself to take more risks and trust God with my life.
19. Tell those you love them. Often, you don’t know how much time you have left.
20. You won’t be a teenager forever. Everything you are dealing with will pass.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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