However, nothing in your life before this had prepared you for the job ahead, and now that your kids are in their teen age you find yourself floundering even more. You’re parenting troubled teens and you don’t know what to do.

You’re at the end of your tether and you have tried almost everything. Nothing seems to work and you are feeling the claws of despair ripping into you. You have tried talking to your teens but you just end up shouting and you really don’t want to do that anymore.

You might be parenting troubled teens but that does not mean you need to go back to being a teenager yourself. Talking to your teens’ schools counselors might help so you take that first step. Then you take the next step and take your kids to see a therapist.

This actually works for a time and you begin to see some light at the end of the tunnel and you begin to hope that your days of parenting troubled teens will be behind you. However, as time goes by you notice that your teen starts changing back to the troubled uncooperative teen they were before therapy.

Perhaps you need to take a good look at what’s really happening. Sure you’re parenting troubled teens and your nerves are shot, but maybe they’re trying to tell you something with their behavior.

Maybe they’re telling you in the only way they think you’ll hear them that all is not right in their universe. You never know until you get yourself under control first and start listening to them.

There could be various reasons for their behavior and if things were working with therapy, then maybe something happened later to change everything. You need to talk with them and find out, there’s no better way than talking with your teen.

It’s a hard road to walk being a parent, but it becomes harder still when you’re parenting troubled teens. Nothing in life will ever be easy at that point, but if you open yourself up to their hurts and frustrations you might be able to help them deal with it.

You are their rock in a storm and they need you to help them through these troubled times, no matter how much it might seem otherwise to you. Remember that while parenting troubled teens might be difficult for you, for your teenager being a teen is trouble enough. So have a little more understanding and sympathy for them. It’s all worth it in the end.