Trans folks who perceive their parents as supportive and affirming report better positive mental, physical, and emotional health outcomes. So, what does it actually mean to be affirming and supportive of your transgender child, and how does that responsibility and privilege shift as your child moves through teenagehood and young adulthood?
Don’t you wish you could get inside the mind of your pre-teen or teenager to try to grasp what it is they’re thinking and feeling?
Truly caring for yourself involves both doing things that you enjoy AND taking time to sit with those things that are not very enjoyable. This does not mean that you need to push yourself to do things that you don’t like to do or that are unhealthy for you. But rather that you allow yourself to have and experience all of your emotions. When we reduce our resistance to the unpleasant emotions by allowing them to be as they are, we actually reduce the amount of suffering that they cause.
Since emotional intelligence is a good predictor of overall success throughout life, it is crucial that parents know how to help cultivate emotional intelligence in their children.
Learning to regulate our emotions is an important skill within emotional intelligence and means the ability to reduce how intense an emotion feels on our own. When we regulate our emotions, we are able to quickly shift gears, lighten the mood – both internally and externally.
Grief is a normal reaction for adults and children alike after the death of someone significant. Everyone grieves differently and children are no exception to this. Regardless of their relationship with the deceased, it is normal for changes and challenges to arise for grieving children.
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