Understanding Parent Overreaction
It’s a known fact that teens and their parents never see eye to eye. As they grow older and develop, they start separating from their parents. During this phase, parents can become more controlling to ensure their teens are making the right choices. Consequently, parents tend to overreact if their teens say or do anything, and can be quiet domineering. Teens then become defensive and try to distance themselves from their parents.
As teens start to separate from their parents, the parents start to worry they don’t know where their child is, who they socializing with, or what choices they are making in their life.
What Causes Parent Overreaction?
Parents can remember what they had to go through as a teen and the challenges they had to face. One of the main reasons is to prevent their teens from going through the same pain they experienced when they were a teen.
Parents want to know their child is safe, help them to grow up properly, and make them look good by teaching them life lessons. This may be misinterpreted and to the teen, this may look like the parents are being unfair and overbearing.
Handling Parent Overreaction
Teens need to look and evaluate their own actions and behavior. If it’s resulting in anger, confusion, or hurt, then its’s apparent their actions and words are pushing their parents’ buttons. By making poor life choices and shutting parents out, a teens parents can become domineering. In a lot of instances, it’s the teen provoking the situation, and not the parent.
Usually, parents are afraid of what their teen does not tell them. They need to be reassured with information to reduce their fear. If teens can come to some sort of arrangement where they offer their parents adequate information and assurance, parents will tend to give their teen the space they need.
When teens act as a rational and mature adult, a parent will treat their teen as such. This can result in more independence and individuality. On the other hand, if a teen acts like a negligent and rampant child, the parent will treat them as such.
You will finally understand that because your parents have faults and that home is not perfect, you realize that you yourself have flaws, that you will have to set your own limitations and, finally, that you also will be able to make it fine in the world once you become an adult.