How to Appropriately Encourage Your Teen [One Minute Feature]

In today’s One Minute Feature, I provide a way to appropriately encourage your teen.

Teens need encouragement—especially whenever they’ve failed at something. But, I’m not talking the kind of falsely fluffed flattery that tells Junior he deserves the best of everything just because he has a heart beat and can fog a mirror. That’s not encouragement at all, that’s hogwash—and even Junior knows it.

I’m talking about the idea that every failure—if handled correctly—can be one more step toward actual success. Some would call it failing forward. But, our kids must acknowledge that they have indeed failed at something in the first place. It’s a simple matter of learning from their failures. Because, until they truly know where they truly are, they can’t truly get to where they truly want to be.

Picture Provided by: Quinn Dombrowski.