Adolescence can be a challenging time for young people and their families. The teenager is going through rapid physical and emotional changes. Parents and adolescents must make changes in their relationships to adjust to this new stage. The adolescent goes backwards and forwards between wanting freedom and at the same time still needing the security of the family.

Parents want their children to grow to happy independence yet fear for their safety as they watch them try their wings.

Parents also have to cope with the fact that the dreams they have had for their children may not be going to come true. Teenagers have their own dreams.

Good relationships with your teenagers will help you and them to weather the ups and downs, but they will need more effort than in the past.

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