Getting your teenager to wake up in the morning can be project that makes you late for work and them late for school until a reasonable and workable resolution can be found.
There will be no soft parenting advice here. The truth is that YOU grew up just fine without a cell phone – in fact, you never needed one – and the reality is your child doesn’t NEED one either.
Don’t forget what it was like to be a teenager. Being a teen can be hard at times, and just because you made a zillion mistakes doesn’t mean your teen will.
Quite often, the door-locking situation rears its ugly head when a child turns 12 or 13 years old. Suddenly, the door lock which has been on the door since they were 2, is now their favorite household appliance
It’s hard to imagine that your little girl is growing up. But even harder to imagine is that your little girl is having sex. For many parents, the easiest way to deal with the fact that their daughter may or may not be having sex is to simply live in a state of blissful denial.
Think about it this way. It is only natural at some point that your daughter is going to show an interest in the opposite sex. Think back to your own childhood and the first boy that you liked.
Far too often, parents try to skirt over the important issues in life such as alcohol and drugs, growing up, sex and other ‘facts of life,’ by talking around the issues. Unfortunately, this leaves a lot to the imagination for a preteen or teenager.
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