“S” is for “Senior Year” and from senioritis to sadness, stress, and more, here are 8 S’s to help your teenager get ready and be fully prepared for the new school year.
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No matter what your child’s next move is, transitions are always accompanied by stress. This is a difficult time for all of you. Your child probably has little idea what they want to do with their lives and yet they have an urgent sense that they must figure it all out RIGHT NOW. Or conversely, they may be so directed that one little misstep on what they perceived as their chosen path may throw them into a complete meltdown. Either way-STRESS.
When they were younger you could usually figure out a way to help them move forward, to comfort them, to relieve their anxiety but now the issues are “real life” issues and there are just some things kids need to figure out for themselves. Most things will declare themselves with the passage of time, but it’s hard to sit on your hands and watch them struggle to work through things on their own. Cut the kids some slack when they struggle with angst. You are their North Star. Just be there for them.
Because of the aforementioned stress, you may experience the phenomenon of the soiling of the nest. It’s easiest to take out your anxiety and stress on parents whose love for you is unconditional so sometimes before the actual leave-taking, there is a pulling away. Breathe. Your sweet child will be back but sometimes they make a mess of things before they go because it makes leaving easier.
They have just had it with school and you have just had it with their attitude and with the emotional roller coaster that senior year becomes. They are done-they’ve worked hard and they are feeling the unshackling of the chains that have bound them to this place and these people for the last eighteen years. Give them some space, this too shall pass.
Your emotions and their emotions will be all over the map. One day you want to kick them to the curb and the next you can’t bear the thought of them leaving. You know, of course, that this is all happening in the normal course and it’s simply the way of life. Yet there is so much sadness unfurling around it. For them and for you. The sadness will pass.
Senior year comes with some added expenses, senior portraits, prom, lots of graduation gifts. Be prepared to shell out a few extra dollars this year.
Lots of eye-rolling and exasperated sighs, lots and lots of them. And lots of fights, mind-changing, tears, and drama surrounding the college process. Deadlines loom. You’re talking dorm decor before they are even admitted. Sigh. And finally, a huge sigh of relief coupled with tears of joy and sadness on graduation day. Gigantic sigh.
When you least expect it, you will share a moment with your child that will surprise you. Shockingly, they will admit that you were right about something. They will tell you they love you or they’ll miss you. You will look at them standing this way or that, and suddenly you will see an adult, a real, honest to goodness man or woman where yesterday stood a child.
It’s an exhausting and chaotic year. Take care of yourself and each other. Don’t forget to sleep!!! When they were younger you had a parent group that you could access with your concerns. These days, it’s harder to unburden yourself because you feel like you’re throwing your child under the bus when you complain about them.
Go ahead and share your side of things with other parents of teens. You need the support now as much as you ever have. Before you know it, it will be time to step back and let go, because it will be high time for the final “s,” watch them soar.
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Reference: grownandflown.com/senior-year-help-get-ready
