{"id":589,"date":"2011-11-15T17:01:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T17:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sacredflight.com\/?p=589"},"modified":"2011-11-15T17:37:47","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T17:37:47","slug":"do-you-have-any-essential-strategies-do-keep-in-mind-as-i-learn-how-to-let-go-of-my-teen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sacredflight.com\/?p=589","title":{"rendered":"Parent Question of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Do you have any essential strategies do keep in mind as I learn how to let go of my teen?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Parents beware of over-involvement. Try smiles and humor instead. You might even experiment with treating your teen as if he were someone else&#8217;s! This can enable you to relate to him with more objectivity and lightheartedness.<\/p>\n<p>Try these &#8220;letting go&#8221; strategies:<\/p>\n<p>(1) View your teen as a young adult, not a child.<\/p>\n<p>(2) Compromise when conflict occurs.<\/p>\n<p>(3) Encourage mature behavior when you see it.<\/p>\n<p>(4) Slowly, reduce the number and kind of limits, and increase the freedom.<\/p>\n<p>(5) Create a new relationship by swapping your &#8220;parent-to-child&#8221; one for a &#8220;person-to-person&#8221; relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have any essential strategies do keep in mind as I learn how to let go of my teen?<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacredflight.com\/?p=589\" class=\"searchmore\">Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clr\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sacredflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sacredflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sacredflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sacredflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sacredflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sacredflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/www.sacredflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sacredflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sacredflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sacredflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}