nagpur teenagers are the ever growing concerns of parents with their continuous mood swings and rude behaviour they go to any extent to get to their parents nerves at this point of time it is the parents who require the counselling to deal with the kids in the right manner surjan organized one such parents awareness programme teen talk at scientific society hall on saturday the basic idea of the talk was to spread awareness about adolescence and how to be the constant support system to their children the discussion started with the health and nutrition of children where dr vinod gandhi paediatrician said todays child is as active as we were in our times but comparatively they are busier parents should make it a point that children have high iron content in their food it makes them more energetic and prevents irritability parents find it difficult to understand the sudden change in the behaviour of their child during teenage and tend to be disturbed about it anupama gadkari psychologist explained teenagers usually go through an identity crisis phase they go through behavioural changes and tend to have an oppositional and rude attitude this happens to every child and is an absolutely normal in this stage it is the responsibility of the parents to bridge the communication gap they need to be open to the child and talk about the changes that he or she is going through both mentally and physically kids need their own privacy in this stage and parents should learn to respect that said dr vivek kirpekar psychiatrist avinash deoskar trekker and hrd trainer opined regular outings with the family play a very important role in the upbringing a childs mind needs to be explored and participating in activities along with the child creates the opportunities for the same and increases understanding and compatibility in the parentchild relationship parents need to be less demanding and accept acknowledge and appreciate their child he added various other topics like pocket money peerpressure decision making and girlboyfriend for prestige issue were also discussed in the programme dr vinay hazare dean of government dental college and hospital was the chief guest for the programme