13-Year-Old Parenting Montana Tools

By: Center for Health and Safety Culture
  • Summary

  • Your thirteen-year-old is in the process of carving out their identity, and their measuring stick is often their peers’ opinions and approval. They come to better understand themselves through interactions with you, their teachers, and their peers. This is a critical time to teach your child/teen how to manage their own actions, problem solve, and make healthy decisions. ParentingMontana.org brings parents and those in a parenting role this podcast to provide a process and tools to support your child/teen in developing critical social and emotional skills required for success now and in the future. Approaching interactions with your child/teen using the process offered in this podcast will build the strong relationship essential to managing challenges today and in the coming years. Each stage in your child’s/teen’s life comes with excitement as well as struggles to navigate. Parenting is not an easy journey. Parents and those in a parenting role have access to tools for each age from ParentingMontana.org. The Montana Department of Health and Human Services collaborated with the Center for Health and Safety Culture at Montana State University to support strong mental, emotional, and behavioral development through ParentingMontana.org. The process and tools were initially developed for parents in Montana, yet these parenting skills are applicable for parents everywhere. The process you will learn in this podcast, brought to you by ParentingMontana.org, allows you to engage your child/teen using the following five steps: Gain Input, Teach, Practice, Support, and Recognize. As this process becomes natural in your daily interactions with your child/teen, you will be empowered to resolve parenting challenges while nurturing your relationship. You will already be comfortable with the five-step process as your parenting skills evolve with child’s/teen’s growth. Healthy communication skills paired with a strong relationship allow parents and those in a parenting role to engage their child/teen to work through challenges. This engagement and learning prepares your child/teen with the skills necessary for enduring success. The tools available for parenting your thirteen-year-old include: Anger, Back Talk, Bullying, Chores, Confidence, Conflict, Discipline, Establishing Rules About Alcohol, Friends, Homework, Listening, Lying, Mixed Messages About Alcohol, Peer Pressure, Reading, Routines, and Stress. Investing in yourself as a parent now will benefit your child/teen for a lifetime!
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Episodes
  • Empathy for Your 13 Year Old
    Apr 4 2023
    26 mins
  • Stress and Anxiety for Your 13-Year-Old
    Sep 29 2021

    Montana parents can help their teens (age 13) manage stress and anxiety that may come from puberty and issues with changing body image.

    Now is the right time for parents and those in a parenting role to gain confidence using a process that creates an environment for strengthening your relationship with your child and growing your skills. Parenting is not easy, and every parent wants to be successful. ParentingMontana.org and this podcast will prepare you on your journey as a parent with a five-step process: Gain Input, Teach, Practice, Support, and Recognize. This process allows you to address specific parenting issues while building a strong relationship with your child and promoting healthy growth throughout their lives. Becoming familiar with the five-step process will grow your skills as a parent now and allow you to use the same steps to face future challenges in healthy, positive ways.

    In step one, parents and those in a parenting role create a purposeful opportunity to Gain Input when engaging with their child. In this initial step, you are working to truly hear, understand, and value what your child has to say. Gaining input helps to correct any assumptions about behavior, grows social and emotional skills, builds confidence, and conveys respect. Connecting while gaining input creates a sense of ownership and understanding, which sets the tone for step two, Teach. To teach is to demonstrate what you would like to see your child be able to do and equip them with knowledge and skills. Through teaching, children learn how to interact with the world and what is expected of them. Step three, Practice, is a chance for you to allow your child to try a new skill knowing it is okay to struggle and try again. It is an opportunity to improve behavior, grow habits, build social and emotional skills, support a growth mindset, and receive feedback constructively. Step four, Support, involves coaching, providing feedback, reteaching, monitoring, and following through by applying logical consequences and reflecting. Support grows cause and effect thinking and reinforces the ability to be successful while building social and emotional skills for children and parents and those in a parenting role. Step five, Recognize, creates an opportunity to intentionally acknowledge efforts and successes thereby nurturing motivation for continued growth. Recognizing your child’s efforts encourages self-confidence and self-esteem while building a positive parent-child relationship!

    With practice, this parenting process becomes natural and allows parents and those in a parenting role to navigate each stage of their child’s life as different needs arise. Listen to learn how to apply the five-step process to your parenting needs. Visit ParentingMontana.org for more information about the process, tools, and many other resources to help you raise your child with the skills they need to be successful now and in the future.

    Helpful Links

    https://parentingmontana.org/

    https://parentingmontana.org/parenting-process-for-your-childs-success/

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    23 mins
  • Peer Pressure for Your-13-Year-Old
    Sep 29 2021

    The key to many Montana parenting challenges, like dealing with peer pressure about alcohol for your 13-year-old child, is finding ways to communicate.

    Now is the right time for parents and those in a parenting role to gain confidence using a process that creates an environment for strengthening your relationship with your child and growing your skills. Parenting is not easy, and every parent wants to be successful. ParentingMontana.org and this podcast will prepare you on your journey as a parent with a five-step process: Gain Input, Teach, Practice, Support, and Recognize. This process allows you to address specific parenting issues while building a strong relationship with your child and promoting healthy growth throughout their lives. Becoming familiar with the five-step process will grow your skills as a parent now and allow you to use the same steps to face future challenges in healthy, positive ways.  

    In step one, parents and those in a parenting role create a purposeful opportunity to Gain Input when engaging with their child. In this initial step, you are working to truly hear, understand, and value what your child has to say. Gaining input helps to correct any assumptions about behavior, grows social and emotional skills, builds confidence, and conveys respect. Connecting while gaining input creates a sense of ownership and understanding, which sets the tone for step two, Teach. To teach is to demonstrate what you would like to see your child be able to do and equip them with knowledge and skills. Through teaching, children learn how to interact with the world and what is expected of them. Step three, Practice, is a chance for you to allow your child to try a new skill knowing it is okay to struggle and try again. It is an opportunity to improve behavior, grow habits, build social and emotional skills, support a growth mindset, and receive feedback constructively. Step four, Support, involves coaching, providing feedback, reteaching, monitoring, and following through by applying logical consequences and reflecting. Support grows cause and effect thinking and reinforces the ability to be successful while building social and emotional skills for children and parents and those in a parenting role. Step five, Recognize, creates an opportunity to intentionally acknowledge efforts and successes thereby nurturing motivation for continued growth. Recognizing your child’s efforts encourages self-confidence and self-esteem while building a positive parent-child relationship! 

    With practice, this parenting process becomes natural and allows parents and those in a parenting role to navigate each stage of their child’s life as different needs arise. Listen to learn how to apply the five-step process to your parenting needs. Visit ParentingMontana.org for more information about the process, tools, and many other resources to help you raise your child with the skills they need to be successful now and in the future. 

    Helpful Links

    https://parentingmontana.org/ 

    https://parentingmontana.org/parenting-process-for-your-childs-success/

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    20 mins

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