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During the teen years your child might experience a lot of high highs and some really

low lows and when they have a bad day they may try to take out those feelings on you even if you had nothing to do with it.

I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werta.

Danny is the vice president of parenting and youth here at Focus on the Family and

Danny. Every parent of a teen has probably experienced this kind of a scenario.

The son or daughter walks through the door. They're clearly in a bad mood. It's been a bad day and there's this thundercloud that sort of settles over the home, this dark cloud of ominous emotion.

So what do I do when my team brings that into the home?

Well, there are some creative ways to do this.

One is you could ask the question,

hey, do you feel like throwing up?

And they may say, no, did you have an emotional bad meal?

Seems that you're wanting to throw up.

And they can relate to that, right?

That got my attention.

Yeah. Emotionally, they're wanting to throw up and so you can say you know we're

we're prepared for that but know that it's something you as a parent know that it's

something they picked up somewhere else and it's coming

and affecting you. So come in with that mindset.

Grab a bag.

That throw-up's going to come out.

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