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Advice for Navigating Tween Emotions with Grace

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Skip to contentThis was really helpful! Thank you so much! I feel like I already knew most of this but seeing it written out clearly really helps to give me a visual and some good wording that I can come back to later when emotions are high and thinking isn’t quite so rational!I love the idea that we need to be our daughters’ anchor just as we are anchored in Jesus! And yes, our response makes all the difference in our children’s behavior. Thank you for sharing!Thank you so much! I’ll be honest, my oldest daughter isn’t quite six and I feel like I’m already dealing with this moodiness. It’s true, as soon as I pick her up from school it’s like she’s disappointed to see me. It’s so frustrating!Love your articles!thanks for sharing your list needed tips. In gods love. NathaliePsalm 51:10 “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.”We use that verse kind of like an attitude reset. Quoting it over and over really does calm the spirit and changes the heart. It helps in any situation of frustration or anger. I say it at least 5-10 times before I respond.Brandi, thank you SO much for sharing your insight. As a mother of 2 girl, ages 8 and 7, I sometimes struggle with handling day to day rollercoaster emotions. Though I feel like i do a decent job there is always room for improvement and this article is brilliant!Thank you for reminding me of my role. To help calm not fuel my daughters emotions when she is upset. My daughter has recently been coming home from school full of woes about upsetting friendship groups and ( in her words) too much drama. I find myself getting cross along with her as I remember having to deal with similar situations at her age. But your lovely guides have reminded me of my need at the time and now her need for an anchor. Thank you. God bless. Eddie xI LOVE this article! I also sincerely appreciate that you are the first to admit your weaknesses… It helps me feel like my struggles are normal. Sometimes I’m able to keep a cool head and sometimes my emotions get the best of me. Thank you for pointing your readers, like me, to the cross. And most of all, thank you for reminding us to keep calm in the midst of the drama. Keep up the good work!Hi,I’m the mother of three boys and one girl. She’s 8. I had no idea her mood swings and emotional rollercoasters were normal! I thought I was dealing with a potential mental/emotional issue like bipolar. Wow, thank you so much for writing this and helping me understand that 8 is a tween age and hormones are already at play. I really needed to know that this isn’t just her and it isn’t just me. Phew. I think your article has saved my family, and my daughter. Thank you for listening to inspiration from heaven and writing this.This post was so meant for me to read today. My husband and I are both home all day with our 12 year old daughter. My husband is a self employed programmer and I am a stay at home mom who has homeschooled our daughter since she was 4 years old. She is almost 13 and has been giving us sob stories how life is so unfair. I am well aware that she is going through changes and I understand where she is coming from.Last week her dad was getting ready to go over to our Pastor’s house to work on our church’s website. My husband wanted her and I to go with him, but I just could not let our daughter go while she was in a total angry and honestly quite hateful mood. She was yelling at me after dad left the house, which I do not condone a child yelling at their parents at all what so ever. I sat her down at the kitchen table and let her yell at me while I listened to her tirade. Once she finished, I calmly asked her if she felt better? She said yes I do. I asked her if she would be willing to listen to me now? She said sure and I in a calm voice stated that her behavior has been very disrespectful and not allowed in our house. She immediately apologized to me. I asked her if she had any questions about what her dad and I expect of her in this house. She said no. Suddenly everything was diffused…Praise the Lord Above. I asked her if there was anything that I could help her with?She stated that she feels more comfortable talking to me about her emotional issues and that she dislikes it when dad steps in to try diffuse the situation. She told me that she feels that I am more understanding than dad. Once she said that to me, I had to ask her then why does she yell at me. She didn’t know why. I told her that even though she yells at me I know that she still loves me and I will always love her even in those difficult times. I told her that she should try to calm down and not yell at us. I also told her that she is still a child and she needs to listen to us both her dad and I. I told her that when she argues with us she is breaking one of Jesus’ commandments, which is a huge no no. I told her it makes God unhappy when his children are disobedient. She apologized again to me. I told her that I will be right by her side just like Jesus is there with her in everything she does. I told her that she is a good young lady but she really needs to try to stop yelling at me because it not only emotionally hurtful to me but it makes her Heavenly Father and unhappy. It is so much better to be able to have calm rational conversations with the unruly hormonal almost teenage girl. We finally have an understanding of what each of us should do. Being a mom to a teenage strong willed girl…my goodness is not easy sometimes. Jesus knew that I could handle this mom task for he is all knowing. Thank you for listening and providing this helpful post. Hope that you have a blessed day.I have twins (boy/girl) and they are nine.Oh man, she is maturing and her behaviours are out of control. But here’s the thing – she’s still has a very young mind. She wants nothing to do with me in teaching her about her changing body. She never wants to brush her hair and this has become a big thing (I’ve tried all the things too).I keep telling myself it’s hormones…she’s probably going to get her period this summer…which is INSANE to think because she’s only 9 years old. But who knows? The biggest struggle is brushing her hair and her talking to me. I bought some books and hoping she will sit with me. I think spending 1:1 time is helping but only slightly. She is still in in prickly mood.I also talked to a girlfriend and her daughter and mine will have a playdate so hoping that things will calm down. I also think school is a big factor too in her behavior at home! Thanks for the tips.

Skip to contentThis was really helpful! Thank you so much! I feel like I already knew most of this but seeing it written out clearly really helps to give me a visual and some good wording that I can come back to later when emotions are high and thinking isn’t quite so rational!I love the idea that we need to be our daughters’ anchor just as we are anchored in Jesus! And yes, our response makes all the difference in our children’s behavior. Thank you for sharing!Thank you so much! I’ll be honest, my oldest daughter isn’t quite six and I feel like I’m already dealing with this moodiness. It’s...

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