PARENT- TEEN RELATIONSHIPS As a parent of a teenager, and having handled hundreds of career mentoring cases for teenagers with their parents, there have been some learnings that I would like to share here. All of us have observed the changes that take place in our children as they enter into their Teenage. So many parents are unable to accept some of these changes, and sub-consciously want their teenage child to behave like they used to an year or a couple of years before. Most relationships get awry because of these conflicts of expectations in the parents mind about the behavior of the child. Teenage is the " point of inflexion " where the Personality of the child gets transformed into it's permanent adult personality. Yes, once this personality is formed, it rarely changes and only maturity is displayed in the expression of the personality traits as they age, the basic core personality remaining the same for life. So, it is important for every parent to learn to &qu
