Many teenagers get into a lot of trouble because of their lack of respect for authority figures at home and in school. There’s often a confusion about when teens are being truly disrespectful and when they are expressing frustration over what they perceive to be unfair treatment or challenging situations. 

Domestic abuse can happen to anyone. When parents and siblings become victims of a verbally abusive teenager, what can be done to change this? How can parents respond when their teens begin to threaten and use abusive language on them? 

Disruptive behavior is normal to growing up teens. Loud raucous music, refusal to do chores, untidy bedrooms, occasional breaking of the house rules and curfew, most of us parents let these things slip by, accepting that all these are just part and parcel of being a growing up teen. However, when disruptive behavior begins interfering Read the full article…

While children are still young, parents exercise their authority to choose their children’s friends for them. They organize playdates, they introduce playmates, or take them away from playmates who they think are disruptive and bad influences. However, as teens mature, part of the life skills that they need to develop is to learn how to Read the full article…

Disciplining is easier with kids but with teenagers, it is usually a different story. When teens reach certain age, they often assume that certain privileges are automatically available to them. They think that, by becoming an adult alone, the freedom to do certain things they cannot do as a child are already within their right. Read the full article…

Living with a lazy teen can be very frustrating. It seems that the more you try to motivate them, the more determined they are not to be motivated. It’s a pain for parents to keep on reminding their teens to do something over and over. It’s easy for parents to mentally fast-forward to their teen’s Read the full article…

As defined by the Webster’s dictionary, anger is simply a “strong feeling of displeasure”. In most cases, feeling angry is but healthy and natural. This feeling of displeasure can vary from mild annoyance to intense fury. Anger in some ways motivates a person to make appropriate actions to situations or resolve the things that usually Read the full article…

Communication between parents and their children can be difficult but over time, the miscommunication increases greatly as the child becomes a teenager. The communication techniques that may have previously worked for your children may not be as effective now. Especially if parents are now confronted by their own defiant teen.As a child becomes a teenager, Read the full article…