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Yes, you can. Three small words which can change your teen's outlook today and maybe for the rest of their life. I recently realised that teens can sometimes get themselves so down into an emotional pit, that they just stay there, kicking themselves. It could be over a high pressure school assignment or falling short of a sports or social goal they so want to achieve. Oh, maybe it’s exaggerated by hormones or maybe it’s just the newness of how majorly frustrating major life lessons can be.
Whatever the reason; to be a health adult they HAVE to learn to conquer such emotional contests.
I also realised that at that point, sometimes; the best friend can’t help them; nor can their sibling or their girlfriend/boyfriend. Maybe it’s then that only a parent has the passion and the might to not stop 'til their teen can see the positive again.
From the experience I just went through I learned that I had to keep saying repeatedly that my teen could make their goal. When the teen stopped listening; I stopped talking; but after a short time I put my broken record message back on the turntable and dropped the needle again.
When I finally started to get new replies from the teen; then I focused my words on encouragement, on faith in him, on the reward that he would be feel when he climbed out of the pit. I must have sounded like a broken Barack Obama doll. I just kept saying “Yes, you can!”
Now, after having two teens of my own and multiple nieces and nephews not to mention all the wayward teenagers who have crossed our doorstep; I believe that these final rounds of cheerleading are “meant to be.” Yes, I do feel sometimes like a broken record, but now I also believe that this cheerleading gets stuck in their memory forever; and most importantly will come back to them when they need it. Then they’ll alway hear a strong voice saying “Yes you can” and eventually that voice will be their own.
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