Communicating+With+Parents

Communicating With Parents

__**Why is it a problem?**__ Not communicating with parents is a problem because it can often lead to child abuse, and/or cause a parent to take extreme measures. Even if i does not physically harm you, it can often harm both sides of the family: the parents and children. In many cases, teens keep their anger bottled up inside, and take it out on people using physical violence, inside and outside if school. Often, the people who are bullies are the ones that do not have good communication skills.

__**Why does it happen?**__ When talking to a parent, most teenagers struggle with making conversation. Often parents and their kids do not talk, because the children think that they will get punished for what they have to say. It is often a problem that teenagers and young adults do not communicate well enough with their parents. Many people feel like silence is a good form of communication, but in all seriousness silence has a very big effect on the individual’s morals later in life. Often non-communication makes a parent assume things, and in some cases it can lead to child abuse. Interpersonal skills and good communication efforts are both very important in the real world. A lot of business these days has to do with how you present your product, and if you can’t even talk to the closest people in your life, then how are you going to succeed later?

__**What are the statistics?**__ Last year over 3,000,000 cases of child abuse were reported, and over 2,000 children died. The others suffered in many other ways, such as: emotional trauma, bullying at school, behavior problems, drug and alcohol abuse, becoming teen parents, losing family members and becoming homeless, being juvenile delinquents and some even grow up to be child abusers themselves.

__**﻿Who does it affect?/ Who is at risk?**__ The people that are affected by not communicating are the parents, and the teenagers. It affects the teenagers because they do worse in school, and lose a lot of relationships. Parents are basically the only people that support you through EVERYTHING, so it is not a good idea to push them out of your life. __**What are some coping skills?**__ listening sharing activities or hobbies being aware of the situation turning off all electronics be careful of what you share model healthy attitudes

__**What places could teens go for help?**__ [|www.TeenLifeLines.net] [] go to school counselors, or get a part-time job!

__**Solutions for Teens:**__ -make more of an effort to communicate with your parents! -visit this website > [] This website is very helpful, and teaches you a lot about how to communicate well! ^ you can learn how to communicate better with your children by visiting []!

__**Solutions for Parents:**__
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__**Solutions for Schools:**__ - provide a counselor for teens to talk to -make sure someone in your school system is there to listen!

Quotes from the play: -"Hang thee, young baggage. Disobedient wretch!" -"Or never after look me in the face: Speak not, reply not. Do not answer me:"

-" We have a curse in having her. Out her wilding!" -" O, sweet my mother cast me not away!" -" Talk not to me, for I’ll not speak a word."

This topic relates to Romeo and Juliet, because Juliet had A LOT of problems communicating with her dad and mom. They never understood her feelings, and always tried to pressure her into doing stuff she did not want to do. If Juliet did not do what they wanted, the parents got mad. For instance, her dad told her that if she did not marry Paris, he would bid her from their house.

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"Communication Skills for Parents: Parenting Tips for Talking to Children." //Suite101.com: Online Magazine and Writers' Network//. Web. 07 Oct. 2010. [].

Witmer, By Denise. "Communication Skills for Parents." //Parenting Teens - Parents of Teenagers Find Help Raising Teens//. Web. 07 Oct. 2010. []. media type="custom" key="7137127"