Title: EXASPERATE NOT YOUR TEEN (Online Event)
Speaker: Francis Lee
Date: 24 FEB Thu
Time: 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Venue: ALBY Events via online ZOOM Video
Fee: $10
Parents want to understand and connect well with their teenager and promote a healthy development. But the reality is as your children become teenagers, your apprehension and challenges increase too.
Instead of connecting with your teenagers through respect, understanding and limits, many parents fall into the parental escalation trap. Ephesian 6:4 (NLT) says, “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger by the way you treat them…”
What should parents do differently then?
Research has shown that some risk taking by teenagers is normal and transient. However, to many parents, it can be very worrying and naturally parents want to control and have a say in their teenager’s behaviour.
Common safe control measures include monitoring teenager’s behaviour closely, using threats and meting out discipline when necessary to prevent serious or long-term risk-taking behaviour.
The purpose of this talk is to teach and encourage parents to build relationships and connect with their teenager first. Through this, their teenager can grow, overcome their problems and increase in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and men.
Francis will guide parents how to develop their own approach to dealing with your teenager’s perception of risk and to averting risk-taking activities.
This talk is also suitable for those working with youths or for guardians of teenager.
About Francis Lee
Francis Lee is a passionate and experienced senior counsellor. He can connect well with clients to improve their mental and emotional well-being. With more than 15 years of counselling experience, he has worked with clients, including youths, adults, families, married couples and senior citizens, from diverse backgrounds.
Life issues and/or mental health conditions that people struggle to deal with may include parenting problems, relationship difficulties, extra-marital affairs, grief, palliative support, as well as various kinds of mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, phobias, traumas, psychosis, etc.
He is an accredited Positive Parenting practitioner, a marriage therapist in Alpha Marriage, Prepare-Enrich as well as accredited Prevention Relationship and Enhancement Program (PREP). He is also a qualified mental health rehabilitation practitioner trained in the evidence-based Illness Management & Recovery (IMR).