Today is Thursday, June 30 and summer is flying by. In a matter of weeks you’ll be doing the “get ready for school shuffle.”
Summer time is a good break from the schoolyard pecking order and a perfect time to reboot relationships that matter. Separation from the routine bullying, classrooms, and hallways is a nice break for everyone. Talk through your relationships as a family – awkward as it may seem it is like laying iron and steel into the foundation of your child/teen. How about existing relationships from club sports, youth groups, and neighborhood hangouts… are these relationships constructive or destructive?
If your child faces a manipulative bully that consistently dominates others by throwing temper tantrums, is controlling, and insensitive … do step in and be a bridge. Your child will appreciate an escape from such insecure brats (any age) as you give them creative outs to redirect their energies. Standing alone is difficult, but when there is family rallying support and affirmation kids don’t just survive, they thrive. I have had many of our college staff tell how their parents really helped them out by listening, supporting and praying for them.
BIG WARNING: Parents, we cannot and should not rescue our child from all of life’s hardships. If we insulate and overprotect they will crumble because they have not had the opportunity to work through such difficulties. It is much healthier and better for them to fail and experience the hurts of adolescence while under your umbrella than to become immobilized when they leave your home. Check out Tim Elmore’s book “IY Generation”.
Scriptures that remind us of being and keeping quality friendships include Proverbs 18:24; 27:17.
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