Have you ever noticed that you feel more peaceful and less stressed when you don’t take personally what your teen or young adult child does?   

Have you ever noticed that you feel more peaceful and less stressed when you don’t take personally what your teen or young adult child does?  

When you take things personally, you begin to focus on what you did wrong or what you did to cause what your child is doing or saying.  

It is important for your emotionally well being to remember that you didn’t cause it and you don’t have control over it.

What your child does has to do with where they are emotionally and what they are experiencing.  It is not about you.  It is about them. 

When you blame yourself, you may begin to question your parenting and even your own self worth.  

So next time you start to take things personally and make them about you, pause… and remind yourself that you child is his or her own person.