Student Wellbeing News

The Importance Of Vulnerability

The Wellbeing Team at Frankston High School often get told by parents that they find it difficult to get any information from their child. They will notice that their teenager may seem down, and when they ask how they are, the young person may respond in a deflective manner. Hugh from The Resilience Project was recently interviewed on a morning show and his message of 'joining with', and making yourself vulnerable, is a key technique in communication. This is helpful as long as we, as parents, don't spend too much time talking about ourselves, but rather use it as a platform to help the young person to begin to have that deeper conversation. When my children were teenagers I would find that these conversations came more naturally whilst we were in the car, or on a walk, or any situation where we were doing something together, and we weren't face to face.

I encourage you to try it out.

Here's a snippet from Hugh's interview.