Parents Helping Teens

How can parents help students make life and work decisions after high school?

Parents, guardians and other significant adults can have a major influence on a student life and work choices. The best way for parents to help may be to:

• work on building and maintaining an open relationship with the people involved in your student's education;
• talk to your student's career counsellor and teachers to share information and common concerns;
• be involved in your student's career program in ways that can continually further your student's career development and learning;
• familiarize yourself with the career development process;
• become a member of your local school, district, and provincial parent advisory council.

Working With Your Teen - Parent Strategies

• Identifying Opportunities

  Help your teen look for career opportunities in fields of work that have staying potential.
  
  

• Identifying Options

  Help your teen match their interests, skills and values with possible future work options.
  
  

• Making the Transition

  Help your teen research all the possible routes towards their goals.
  
  

• Career Planning Guide

  Help you teen understand that a career is a journey, not a destination.
  
  

• Challenges to Transition

  Help your teen meet the challenges of the adolescent years.

Parents and Teens Talk Futures; published by the CES Career Education Society, with funding from Human Resources Development Canada, West Vancouver, BC 1998 © copyright CES Career Education Society