by Alice Shaffer
Development Team Member of Regarding Nannies
The other week I shared a great blog post, What To Do When Teens Talk Back and received a lot of positive responses. Many readers felt that the author was talking about their personal houses and teens. As I mentioned, I am a nanny to teenagers and a tween, so talking back and trust are big things in my daily nanny job life. The kids and I have had issues with trust building-building trust and losing trust. I found two articles on trust and was thankful for the tips on how to build trust and also regaining trust after it has been lost. I hope you find them useful as well. Please share in the comment section any tips you have for trust building and rebuilding.
7 Strategies to Build Trust with Your Child from wahm.com
Love does not come easy and its main foundations are trust and security. If these two exist in a parent-child relationship, it will be easier to deal with more difficult situations. Trust, safety and love are interlinked and nurturing these three things is essential to a happy family life and a happy childhood for your children. Here are 7 strategies to build trust with your child.
Strategy #1 – Practice what You Preach
Building trust with your child is similar to leadership. If the leader does the right thing, the people he or she is leading will follow. If you tell your child to eat vegetables and you do not eat them yourself, then you are sending the wrong message. Build the bond between you and your child by practicing what you preach
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Five Steps to Rebuilding Trust Between Parents and Teens
By Meghan Vivo
Slamming doors, screaming voices, sulking faces – what does broken trust look like in your home? For many, it’s an ongoing cycle – the teen lies, breaks curfew, experiments with drugs, or gets into trouble at school. The parents respond with guilt trips, threats to take away privileges, and violations of their child’s privacy. Both sides feel trust has been broken beyond repair.
Trust is a fundamental building block of parent-child relationships, especially as children develop into teenagers. “In general, trust is broken when a parent or teen acts in a way that doesn’t meet the other’s expectations,” explains PJ Swan, LPC, Director of Family Services at SageWalk The Wilderness School. “Both parents and teens break the other’s trust when they engage in outbursts or temper tantrums, guilt trips, or threats of any kind. Parents lose their child’s trust when they fail to set and enforce limits and when they resort to snooping or spying to learn about their child’s life.”
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