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40 Ways to Show Teens You Care

1. Communicate openly and frankly with them
2. Cherish their input
3. Give them your full attention when they do open up, maintaining eye contact
4. Be interested in what interests them
5. Remember that each child is unique
6. Do your best to attend their sports games and special events
7. Find ways to make them feel special
8. Realize that life is not simple for teens
9. Be as transparent as possible; you can be honest about your own needs
10. Understand that they will swing between dependence and independence
11. False starts, mistakes, poor judgment, or impulsive action are part of growing up
12. Be aware of your own growth; as you grow, you will be more able to understand your teen’s growth
13. Let them naturally gravitate more toward their friends than to you
14. Make time for them
15. Cherish the time they do spend with you and tell them so
16. Be humble enough to admit when you have overreacted or made a mistake
17. Teens have their own mind, so their difficult behavior is not always a reflection of you
18. Teens need a significant degree of autonomy and need your support with their choices
19. Suggest better behavior when they do act out
20. Welcome their suggestions
21. Patience is a virtue, tolerance is not
22. When you believe in them they will flourish
23. Give them their private time when they need it
24. Unconditional love is essential
25. Praise produces more than criticism
26. Accept their feelings
27. Expect their best; expecting perfection can lead to lifelong problems
28. Let them communicate their needs and try to meet them
29. Be consistent with discipline; they want boundaries, but will not admit it
30. Compliment with honesty
31. Model the importance of values
32. Open your home to their friends
33. Get to know the crowd they are running with
34. You can help them set realistic goals and expectations
35. Keep the promises you make
36. It is important to let them know when you are overwhelmed and that it is not their fault
37. A child that feels loved, expresses love
38. Still accept them when they are acting out
39. You are your child’s role model
40. Affirm them as often as possible

Remember, it is a natural progression of life for teenagers to want to develop their independence, to not want rules, and not listen to your sage advice. They want to make their own mistakes … this is how they learn. If they do not seek their independence, they may live with you the rest of their lives. Not a pleasant or healthy thought! If you are concerned about this … place a sign on their bedroom door: “Checkout is 18!”

Remember, life begins when the dog dies and the kids move out of the home!

Happy Parenting

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Story and history

Many believe that at the time of Halloween, spirits can make contact with the physical world and magic becomes most potent. According to a story, on the day of Halloween, the spirits of all those who had died the preceding year would return to look for living bodies they could possess for the next year. As the living persons would never like to be possessed, they would put out the fires in their homes, to make them uncomfortable and undesirable for the spirits. They would then move about in all sorts of ghoulish dresses and
noisily parade around the neighborhood to scare away the spirits.

A shortened form of All-hallow-even, because it is the evening of or before “All Hallows Day,” Halloween was originally a pagan festival among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain. Later different versions of the tradition were carried to North America by Irish, Scots, Welsh and other immigrants in the 19th century. In the West, Halloween is mostly accepted as a part of American pop culture in the late 20th century.

Symbols and colors

Halloween art involves death, magic and mythical monsters. So familiar Halloween characters include ghosts, ghouls, witches, vampires, bats, owls, crows, vultures, haunted houses, pumpkin men, black cats, spiders, goblins, zombies, mummies, skeletons, werewolves, and demons. Although black and orange are the traditional colors of Halloween, purple, green, and red are also used these days.

Trick-or-treating

In the United States, the main Halloween event is trick-or-treating, in which children dress up in costume disguises and go door-to-door in their neighborhood, ringing each doorbell and yelling “trick or treat!” The occupants of the house (often themselves dressed in frightening costumes) will then hand out things like small candies or miniature chocolate bars. This event takes different forms in different countries.

Games and foods

A common Halloween game is bobbing for apples, in which apples float in a tub or a large basin of water; the participants must use their teeth to remove an apple from the basin. Another interesting game involves hanging up treacle or syrup-coated scones by strings; one must eat them without using hands while they remain attached to the string.
Coming at the end of the annual apple harvest, candy apples were a common treat at Halloween. The practice, however, waned following rumors that some individuals were embedding items like pins and razor blades in the apples that they would pass out to children. Other foods associated with Halloween are candy corn, bonfire toffee, toffee apple, hot apple cider, roasted or popped corn, roasted pumpkin seeds, pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread etc.

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