Parenting Your Teenager Questions

Parenting Your Teenager Questions Many parents seem more than a po 'of confusion about what they are entitled to know their teens.The question that often goes something like this: "We want to know if our 16-year-old son, and that he is . He makes it sound as if we are the best of parents, and that embarrassed him unfairly, we want to know that he and his friends. We are proud? "You have the right, necessity and obligation to know all these things, and much more. I believe that every parent of a teenager has the right to know, and the urgent need to know a piece of information that I, like W. This fundamental W are: 1) Who are with time. One of the strongest forces in the life of a teenager influence from parents, media, culture and especially friends.With my friends, is not the issue, children may be affected, but how they are affected. We have come to use the cliché of peer pressure, but this is really influence.One of the clearest signs of problems is when a teenager has two types of friends _, that the parents know, and that parents have never seen the child and does not want you see.Your Teen do not want it for a reason, and it is not good. A good rule of thumb is that your teenager is not allowed to go anywhere with someone you are not satisfied at least. Another simple but little used strategy is to know the parents of your teen friends. Even if you can secure your house at the center of his circle of friends, the place for many activities, or at least get started, you have a good thing going.2) What do. "But Mom, (covered in a two-or three-syllable words) We do not know what we do!" Possible answers _ "Well, you need to know the answer, and then I need to know the answer, before going "or" This is good for today, if you decide you need to let me know. "Another feels is" But all the others get to do it! "This is one of the Top-10 things never to believe. It is simply not true. All the others not to do so. And even if, as parents have the right to say, N.3), where they go. The what and where you go together, and apply the same rules. Pay attention to fraud, where Billy tells his parents that he tued the house of Bobby, and Bobby tells his parents, he is Billy's house. This can be easily handled and to review, if you know the parents of kids friends.4) Once again. This leads to the question of curfew pleasant. The dilemma: parents want children at home, at some time, children want later.I 've the situation has never been, if a child wanted his curfew earlier. Solution: Parents are looking for a curfew time. Note that I do not have parents and the parents and children. This starts with the parents, and therefore it is for children to gain more.While us, let us define late. End is at the end, and 10 clock clock is 10, unless there is something important that can not be avoided. If yes, in a manner consistent 10:10 a.m. acceptable and not too late to send the message that the rules do not count really, and to encourage an increasing number of delays, not to mention that his performance as the curfew will be from three parent.If months, adding a further 15 minutes. If you are too late in three months, the period of three months start eaing power, point.This model that represents the real world in which the privileges are not only there, but deserves to performance.I 'I saw more than a family making This is a good arrangement that provides a small form, in response to W, before the request is to go considered.Now, a word of waing: Your children are not met. That's okay, because that's not the point. The point is, responsibility and other things about the real world and laboratory-intensive work of education is a girl a little 'less stressful.While who your children to respect the W can not be easy, safe, one can help to prevent other heinous W, for example: Wait until late at night and I wonder Worrying.Visit ParentingYourTeenager.com for tips and tools for thriving during the teen years. You can also subscribe to our f * r * e * e 5-day e-program on The Top 5 Things to Never Say to your youth, education and coaching expert Jeff Herring.