TEENS SECRETLY APPRECIATE LIMITS

Being the boss is different from being your child’s best friend.  Teens don’t always like what you finally decide, but they will respect and accept it, and they will secretly appreciate you for it.  For teenagers, peer pressure is strong.  They can more easily resist temptations by blaming their parents.   Although teens can’t honestly say they will be punished by parents who use positive parenting skills, they can say they’ll get into a lot of trouble with their parents. Did you know

                                                                                                                                               

Teenagers can more easily resist peer pressure by blaming their parents. 

Just because positive parenting doesn't punish kids, children are not free to misbehave without consequences.  For teens to gain more freedom, they have to earn trust.  If they prove to be incapable of respecting the limits of their new freedom, then less freedom is given.  A parent may temporarily take away a freedom as an adjustment, but not as a punishment.

 

A parent may temporarily take away a freedom as an adjustment but not as a punishment.

Adapted from children are from heaven

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