Use this page to share your tips and stories with other parents! To submit something, just e-mail- dwardwell@cvuhs.org

Parents attend CY events and contribute valuable feedback and resources. Parents who attended the Text This performance initiated Access classes for social networking skills.

At a recent CY"Dialogue Night" at CVU, we asked the parents to write down a few suggestions for other parents to keep in mind while dealing with some of the issues that might come up. Here are some "Pearls of Wisdom" from them:

• Listen more than you speak
• Remain calm and positive
• Have faith that your teenager really will grow up and be a responsible, caring human being.
• Use humor to start a conversation and break barriers.
• Believe in the author- not their stories.
• You have to separate the youth from their natural inclination to weave yours.
• Love them
• Be persistent: it really does sink in over time
• Plan family activities. Go skiing, take a hike or vacation, go to the movies. Plan them and do them.
• Be yourself, get involved, be supportive and be a good listener.
• Show that you care by doing things with them.

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