Kathmandu: Love is considered casteless, religionless, classless and ageless. So, irrespective of age, people be them a teenager, an adult or an aging can easily fall in love at any age.
If the love relationship is healthy, it benefits health. It also fills the body with positive energy. But when there is doubt and tension in love it affects even more. Intensity of love and the response to happiness and stress arising from it can vary according to age and personality of the person.
Since adolescence is almost devoid of experience, the consequences of common problems arising from relationships can be complex. The stress and confusion brought by teenage love does not only turn relatively complex but also becomes difficult to manage.
If parents are careful, they can make their teenage children come to terms with a breakup. So, here are some tips how to care and teach children about relationships and help them deal with any bad consequences.
1. Instead of chiding your children for falling in love at a young age, you should talk to them openly. You should ask how the breakup took place and help them find a solution. The relationship between love and attraction should be explained, explaining that the love that occurs at a teenage age may not be a real love but attraction. It can help them deal with stress stemming from bad relationships.
2. You should teach your children about the importance of education, reasoning that since their current age is the age of reading, they should focus on reading instead of love relationship. You should advise them that you will be matured after completing your studies, and the matured love is real one with the chance of becoming permanent one.
3. Children should be educated about the effects of relation on studies. You can seek the help of counselors.
4. First of all, parents should always be confidants of their children. You should call any friends and confidants of your children home and talk to them openly. You should facilitate them put their problems without hesitation. It can help prevent any wrong decision from taking place.
5. Teenage age comes with the commencement of some hobbies. You should encourage and support your children to follow what they are interested in.
