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:
- Strategies for talking to teens about dating and sexuality
- The importance of an authoritative, not authoritarian, parenting style
- Thinking "harm reduction," not zero tolerance
- Checking the facts before jumping to conclusions about teen behaviour
- 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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