How to Help Teenage Girls With Inspirational Sayings

Parents can help their teen girls understand and create inspirational sayings to help them cope with the daily struggles of being a teenager. Adolescence ushers in a wide range of emotions that make teen girls feel inadequate, depressed or alone. Inspirational sayings can help them feel empowered and hopeful, despite their fluctuating moods.

  1. Make Them Laugh

    • Focus on inspirational sayings or quotes that make teen girls laugh. These quotes often center on menstrual cycles, complicated friendships, mood swings or boys. Discussing teen girl issues, such as premenstrual syndrome or hormonal issues, in fun and cheerful ways can ease tensions and make teen girls feel more comfortable with their developing bodies. "If you can̵7;t make it better, you can laugh at it," wrote the late newspaper columnist and humorist, Erma Bombeck. Encourage teen girls to come up with their own funny quips about puberty or adolescence.

    Offer Moral and Emotional Support

    • Share inspirational sayings or quotes that offer moral and emotional support.
      Teen girls feel pressure to not only perform socially and academically, but to meet society's standards of what's sexy and attractive, according to psychologist Barbara Greenberg writing for "Psychology Today." Discuss a quote that shows your teen daughter that you understand her desire to feel wanted and accepted -- "These days beauty is something that feels so enforced. All girls, including myself, have to learn to love themselves the way they are," said actress and teen role model, Victoria Justice. Encourage your teen daughter by reminding her of all the good, positive things in life. "I don̵7;t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains," said Anne Frank, author and holocaust victim.

    Engage the Rational Mind

    • Find sayings that engage your teen's rational mind, rather than dwelling on painful emotions associated with coming-of-age. "When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another," said Helen Keller. Buy your daughter a pretty journal and encourage her to jot down inspirational sayings she reads or hears and create some of her own. She can choose whether to share her inspirational sayings with you.

    Open Doors of Communication

    • Look for quotations that open doors of communication between you and your teenager. "Parents often feel frustrated, ineffective and 'locked-out' of the relationship they hoped to have with their daughters -- one where they could consult, guide, love and enjoy them," according to clinical psychologist, Lucie Hemmen, writing in "Psychology Today." To keep lines of communication open, share a quote with your daughter such as this one widely attributed to singer Taylor Swift: "Fearless is having fears but jumping anyway." Let your daughter know she's beautiful, strong and capable of handling any situation. Emphasize your belief by sharing an appropriate quote. "A woman is like a tea bag ̵1; you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water," said former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.

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