I want to start my reflection by noting that the relationship between parents and children is of the utmost importance, since without any communication between these two parties the necessary trust is not generated as for our young children trust us as the guiding force in their lives, at least until they reach a degree of maturity in which they can be independent, and even manage to build their own family, meanwhile we are the parents responsible to function as a guide, for that reason I want to direct my reflection oriented to the parents, since Many times our children are disoriented wanting to get answers to questions that although they seem incomprehensible, they need for them a guiding and satisfactory answer.

Dear Parents

My advice to parents, is that our children are going through a stage that many of us as parents have already gone through, and it is not only that of adolescence, it is a very difficult stage, so difficult is that I would categorize this stage as the path of the tightrope, is a path in which our young children travel advanced insecure and, sometimes, even with fear. Under all this scenario I can say that in many of the circumstances, however much we as parents do not want that stage for our children, we can not save them from walking through that difficult stage, although in what we can help them in this difficult stage is to be like a source of food for them, where with our guidance and advice allows them to maintain the balance in their walk during that difficult path of adolescence, we as parents, we are the best we can help our children out of adolescence and entering the stage of adulthood where they can be responsible men and women, fit to face life.

I admit that it is much easier to say than to do it. It seems that it was yesterday when our children were little kids, where they moved from one place to another, full of energy, in which they did not stop talking, a situation that makes us compare their variants, when they are children, and when they already enter adolescence, since during adolescence they no longer want anyone to see them with their parents. We as parents must think that all these changes are too complicated, both for them, as for us as parents, within this mutual difficulty, what is necessary is to be filled with patience and understanding, and to say to raise the flags of the dialogue and understanding, so that the level of confidence of our children increases for us, and we are their best friends.

Encourage dialogue

Both we parents and our young children, we must in some way encourage dialogue between a direct relationship, to achieve combat certain doubts that can be generated to them on the following points:

How can I talk about sex with my parents?
What will my parents think if I tell them about what I am doing?
What do I want to ask my mother or my father about this?

The primary purpose of every parent should be to encourage and create sufficient trust that adolescents can ask for advice about the problems that host them.

Empathy can not be separated from our feelings, when it comes to understanding these problems, we tried as parents to remember when we were young when we had tension, confusion and anxiety, which makes this situation lead us to tell them their experiences, something that will undoubtedly encourage you to trust your children more in us as parents. You have to be optimistic, do not give up on that attempt to talk to them, because although it costs to believe it, the children usually value more the advice of their parents than those of other young people.

Greetings.