Learning Points: Give your child a bad label and he’ll live up to it
Parents often come into my clinic because living with their teenage son/daughter is incredibly problematic. They seek therapy after a particularly unpleasant experience. Those first few minutes of a session can be awkward, as each party tries to get their point of view across.
Parents say, ‘I don’t know how we have gotten to this point’ after they describe the tension and fighting in the family home. And living with a difficult teenager can cause a considerable amount of disharmony.
