31 Ways to Connect with Your Teenage Daughter: Tips for Strengthening Your Relationship
It can be tough being the parent of a teenager. One minute they seem like they’re still your little kid, and the next they’re pushing you away and insisting that they’re an adult. As a parent, it’s important to find ways to connect with your daughter and strengthen your relationship. In this blog post, we will discuss 30 ways to do just that!
- Have an ice cream-tasting party while watching a chick flick. Choose several different pints of ice cream, grab some toppings and decide on a movie. Put your feet up and
- Bake together, and let her choose what to bake. Be her assistant. Do not micromanage. Let her take the lead.
- In the car, take turns playing songs you like and she likes. Have different challenges: The Best Song To Belt Out Loud, The Best Song To Make You Cry, The Best Song To Dance Crazy, The Best Love Song.
- Go to an amusement park together. Create traditions with things such as this. My girls and I will go and eat desserts all day long.
- Make non-alcoholic drinks together and “cheers” to good things in the week.
- Go to a thrift store and dig in together. Come up with a challenge and a budget. You walk along with your eyes closed and when you stop, you have to buy and wear what you stopped on.
- Give her a “Yes” day.
- Pick hair tutorials out and do them to each other.
- Let her choose a craft to do together.
- Volunteer together, and let her choose where and how.
- Go to an open mic night.
- Let her update your wardrobe (within your wardrobe) and give you fashion advice.
- Have her teach you a dance.
- After a bad day, draw her a bath, light a candle, and tell her that water helps everything.
- Learn something new together.
- If you find that you “lecture”, tell her you are working on it and ask for her help in lecturing less. (Being transparent will help you connect.) Make a specific point to have a “No Lecture Weekend”
- Go away overnight somewhere.
- Go to a concert of music she likes.
- Scroll through Pinterest together.
- Shop online, and put things in a cart, but do not buy them.
- Learn a Tik Tok dance together.
- Scroll through her Instagram feed with zero judgment and only ask questions or give compliments.
- Look at old albums/pics/videos.
- Dance Party.
- Learn to hula hoop.
- Go for a walk.
- Go to her room, sit on the bed, and tell her, “I really respect you because…”
- Volunteer to do a photo shoot of her and her of you.
- IF she has Snapchat, check out the funny filters.
- Massage her neck and shoulders if she had a bad day and just listen.
- Have a nerf gun fight one night.
