Mom - Teen Relationship Checklist: The DCC Framework

As parents with adolescents (preteens and teenagers) it’s not uncommon to get disappointed by them. More often than not, they operate below our expectations, and this often leads to frustration, yelling, hitting and sometimes temptation to give up on them.

About 95% of relationship breakdowns between parents and their adolescents is due to misunderstanding each other due to miscommunication from both sides. Remember that communication in parenting is largely dependent on your ability as a parent to speak in the language that your adolescent understands well enough to make them take the actions you intend for them to take without manipulation (including shaming, yelling or hitting).

But you cannot communicate effectively with a child you haven’t connected with. And you cannot connect with the child you don’t genuinely know or understand.

In summary, your ability to successfully raise a competent adult out of your adolescent depends on the following three (3) major factors that make up SMARTA’s proven DCC Parenting Framework when it involves adolescents (10-19 years old)...