Late-Game Parenting: How to Handle Your Teen
Parenting is the greatest challenge that most people will ever face. It certainly seems challenging at the beginning, when you take responsibility for a helpless being with no respect for your sleep schedule! Yet there are greater challenges waiting after years of hard work. When your child becomes a teenager, they gain the ability to look after themselves (sort of). Your job as a parent is not done, though, and in fact it gets harder. Here are important things to keep in mind as your child grows into adolescence. Awareness is the overall watchword you should keep in mind if you want to keep a handle on a teenager. It seems like every tragedy involving a teen includes tearful parents confessing "they had no idea." While you should definitely make an effort to keep tabs on your teen, resist the temptation to turn into the Mom & Dad Bureau of Investigation. As you'll see, there are better ways to understand what's going on with your teen. Teens are like real es...