Adolescent crisis management counselling in Kenya

Does this sound like you?

• Parents, let’s talk, how many times have you told your teen, you are not a kid!!!!! You are not an Adult!!!!
• What are they supposed to be according to you? Are we contributing to the role confusion they suffer?
• When you only fight with the teenagers, and get offended, and there is no peace at home for them to learn about gender roles before the age of 19 years, when will they ever learn, and who will teach them?
• When they serve you with silent treatment, what do you serve them? Silence treatment too? Someone or something is talking to them.
• Are you in your middle life and experiencing a crisis together with your teenager? Were you ever corrected by your teenager? How did it feel? What look was on his or her face?
• Do you know the friends of your children? And their parents? Teenage years is controlled by peer pressure, and their friends have great influence on them.
• What is the career direction of your teenager? Did you allow career mentors to guide them in their prospective career of the future? Or they are completing your career dream.
• Have they ever challenged you on your double speak? What you say is not what you actually mean, and somehow, they need to know? It parents that are contributing to teenager mental health by sending conflicting messages to a young versatile brain.
• Parents, let’s keep talking, do know that your son is someone’s husband and father to your grandchildren, and that lovely angel you call mum, soon will be someone’s wife and the mother of your grandchildren. This should be a wake-up call to help them negotiate adolescence effectively and adjust effectively.
• If these questions and statements resonate with you, it’s time to bring the teenagers for counselling, guidance, or mentorship, even as you seek therapy as a parent.