Communication

Families First - Key to Successful Family Functioning
Effective communication is an important characteristic of strong, healthy families. Research identifies communication as an essential building block of strong marital, parent-child, and sibling relationships.

Celebrate Your Family
Intended to help family develop its strengths. The only two requirments for celebrating your family are a desire to do something that will strengthen family further, and a family commitment to set aside some time for strength-building activties.

Communicating With Your Teen
Have real life examples of communication problem. Teaches how to use an action plan.

Managing Time Work & Family
Tips for improving communications, learn about the barriers to communications, why is communcation so important, and how to communication more effectively.

Between Teens & Adults
Teenagers and adults have a difficult time communicating. Teenagers often think adults wouldn't understand anything. Adults often think teenagers just don't listen to anything they say. That creates conflict.

Guide to Communicating with Asian American Families
Illustrates problems away the among the Asian American families and some of the solutions.

Bridging the Cultural Gap: The Challenge of Intercultural Parent
Teaches efficient ways of approching your teens and communicating with them.

Generation Gap

Challenge of Intercultural Parenting
The author of the essay compares the info to a book.

Thai Youth
As if teen years are not hard enough, each generation suffers the label of worse than the last and misunderstanding reigns supreme-to clear up the confusion, the biggest survey ever undertaken on teenage behaviour in Thailand attempts to paint a realistic picture-but more than results, what are the causes of current teenage angst? And what should we be doing about it?

In Defence of Youth Culture
In everyday life, we hear parents and many adults complaining about the generation gap between themselves and young people. In the media, journalists and politicians attribute a long list of negative characteristics to young people: young people are said to be irresponsible, materialistic, "westernised" and so on. Such attributions make you wonder whether these journalists and politicians ever experienced any kind of childhood or adolescence. They must have been little angels when they were young.

Family, Culture, and the Generation Gap: A Communication Model
Generation gap is not a new phenomenon; rather it has been in existence throughout time. The meaning of generation gap certainly has a different twist when one examines the lifestyle of refugee.

Defining Asian American Culture
Whiz kids, role models, top achievers, obedient to parents are some of the stereotypes associated with Asian American students. Foreign-born ones are tagged somehow otherwise and adults like parents are perceived as strict, with high regards to education as key to their children's success. Why?

Tips for Parents

Supporting Your Adolescents: Tips for Parents
The first step for parent in dealing with concerns about their adolescents, therefore, is to improve or reopen the lines of communication. Simply talking with adolescents, without focusing on immediate concerns, gives young people the chance to share their struggles or provide reassurance that they are comfortable and doing well

Close Family Education
If you get more involved with your teens' life, they will most likely do better in school and have a better future. Like if you keep books and magazines at home, they will be more encouraged to read.

Online Magazine
Online magazine entertaining for families with teens. It deals with many issues that families have.

Dysfunctional Families
Fix your dysfunctional families

Divorce Conflicts
Conflict Between Parents and Teenagers. If you need to ask...

Increasing Responsibility and Freedom
Tells how teens feel about issues and problems.

Parents-to-Parents Tips
Part of parenting a teen is the challenge of finding what works and what is counter-productive. Here, you can share with others your hard-earned parenting trials and triumphs and learn how other parents approach different issues. Each week a new question is posted along with your responses.

10 Ways to Tell Your Teenagers "I Love You"
Ten ways to tell your teenager "I love you," without killing him or her of embarrassment

Listen to Your Teens
Each day opportunities come up to listen to your kids, but you're too busy. Listening is an learned skill; no one is born knowing how to listen.

It All Starts With Listening
The highest compliment children ever give is when they have a problem or want to talk about something that is really important to them.

6 Insider Secrets for Talking to Your Teen
Life's best lessons come from the oddest places. Talking to teenagers is a great example.

Thinking and Reasoning
Your teen went somewhere that they weren't supposed to go. You found out, expressed your disappointment and grounded them. They don't think it's fair, so you listen to their reasoning behind the fairness issue. Their explanation makes no sense to you. Are you surprised?

Parent Talk
Keeping the lines of communication open, socializing and body image, talking about sex, talking about drugs, privacy and stress, and also rebellions, setting limits discussions on suicide, dealing with divorce and last not least about high school and beyond. All tips for parents so parents can build up a better relationship between parents and teens.

Surveys

Youth Media Corps Survey
The survey that we have created will help us determine what parents and teens are thinking about each other. Please do take some time to fill out our survey.

Talking With Teens
The YMCA Parent and Teen Survey Final Report