We all have to learn as parents that we can’t live our teenagers' lives for them – no matter how tempting! They have to make their own mistakes and hopefully learn from them but what we can do is offer support and advice especially at crucial times in their education.
Getting your teens to reply to you may be a thankless task but surveys show that teenagers do listen to their parents – they just don’t acknowledge that they do! So you may even overhear some of your advice actually being passed on to a friend!
It’s often hard for parents to come to terms with the fact that their teens are grown up enough to fall in love let alone cope with the aftermath of a broken romance!
