Best Strategies for Parenting Teenagers

When you are faced with parenting a teenage child it can feel as though you will never find a common ground to walk on. It may seem like your cooperative eager to please child turned surly and rebellious overnight. As your child stops talking and becomes someone you really don't know you will want to develop new strategies for working through these times with them.

Cell phones and computers is one issue parents must deal with without ignoring them. You won't have an easy time cutting them completely off of these staples but you can certianly monitor their overall usage to a large extent. They won't necessarily like the idea but you must consider their safety, whether they are getting their school work done and if the phone bill is too expensive. When it comes to internet security you as a parent have options available from your service provider that allow you to limit your teens ability to access some websites as well as monitor where they do go. The same as the places you don't want your child going in town there are places online you don't want them involved in either. This is just part of parenting teenagers in the twenty-first century. The single most important you can do for your teen is to set a good example. Too often parents neglect to practice what they preach when telling teens to avoid things bad for them. Teens are more likely to drink or get high if their parents are doing it regardless of what the parents are telling them to do. Similarly, if parents typically swear around the house, it's almost inevitable that teenagers will do them same, even if they're told not to. So set the example you want them to follow.

One aspect of parenting teenagers is spending a certain amount of time with them. Of course this is often easier said than done for a number of reasons. One reason for this is your busy schedule and your teens interest in being with friends or playing video games. You should still make an effort to talk with them and spend some good quality time alone with them. It's perfectly natural for them to want to distance themselves from you but this of course doesn't mean you don't need to give your guidance and assurance. When you don't make the effort to spend time with them you are at risk of having them block you out and it's difficult to get past that block once it's been put into place. So parenting teenagers requires that you make time for them in your schedule. Even though there are some difficult times you can take pride in the fact that you've raised a well rounded individual. We all go through it, it's an adjustment for everyone involved. These tips can help you survive parenting a teenage child.

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