April 20, 2025

Tips for Building a Healthy Relationship with Your Teenager

CAMH.CA

Tips for Building a Healthy Relationship with Your Teenager

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Have you ever wondered what makes a strong, lasting bond between parents and teenagers? Navigating adolescence can be challenging, but building a healthy relationship with your teen is one of the most important—and rewarding—things you can do.

 

The "Tips for Building Healthy Relationships with Your Teenagers" resource from CAMH offers practical, research-based guidance for parents and guardians seeking to strengthen their relationships with their teens.

 

Tips discussed include:

  1. Strategies for talking to teens about dating and sexuality
  2. The importance of an authoritative, not authoritarian, parenting style
  3. Thinking "harm reduction," not zero tolerance
  4. Checking the facts before jumping to conclusions about teen behaviour
  5. Balancing parental supervision with sensitivity, and more...

 

Read the resource to learn strategies to help you nurture trust, respect, and healthy boundaries with the teenagers in your life.

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