Parenting Your Teenager How to End the Curfew Battle

Parenting Your Teenager How to End the Curfew Battle Question: What have been relatively calm and OK with our 16-year-old son so far. Now suddenly, it's a big battle on the curfew. He wants to stay and then later, and we do not believe that he is ready. How can appropriate curfew in our house? R. Here are some basic principles on which you and your teen can: * Curfew for the convenience of parents, not young people. Parents want to know what time their children at home, so that parents can sleep if needed. Make sure that this principle is tued inside out .* There should be a curfew after the weekend and on weeknights .* One or more evenings of family nights, when every home .* Sunday nights weekend nights are not the nights . At school curfew program allows you both Handl more, as a curfew program that you can live a curfew beginning with.Pick. Let's say, 11 clock, for example.Of of course, your child will want it later. Tell him it is a way to get there, and you wish map.If he pays tribute to the 11 clock curfew for four months, and then have a further 15 minutes for his curfew.If at any time during the period of four months, he is late, then the yield strength begins again the next time day.Choose and deadlines, for your family and situation.The curfew beautiful thing is that the parents charged that the adolescent something in the direction of the work, and also parents of adolescents and a clear indicator progress.Leading education expert Jeff Herring is an adolescent and family therapist, education trainer, speaker and syndicated columnist and relationship education. Jeff invites you to visit ParentingYourTeenager.com per 100 tips and tools for education through adolescence. You can also subscribe to his weekly newsletter f'ree "ParenitngYourTeenager".