Positive Discipline for Teenagers

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A Positive Approach To Raising Happy, Healthy and Mature Teenagers
Adolescence can be a time of great stress and turmoil--not only for kids going through it, but for their parents as well. It's normal for teens to explore a new sense of freedom and to redefine the ways in which they relate to their parents, and that process can sometimes leave parents feeling powerless, alienated, or excluded from their children's lives. These effects can be magnified even further in this modern age of social networks, cell phones, and constant digital distraction.
This newly revised and updated edition of Positive Discipline for Teenagers shows parents how to build stronger bridges of communication with their children, break the destructive cycles of guilt and blame that occur in parent-teen power struggles, and work toward greater mutual respect with their adolescents. At the core of the Positive Discipline approach is the understanding that teens still need their…

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Serra Küpçüoğluhas quoted6 years ago
Because the use of logical consequences has become one of the more popular parenting methods today, it may be difficult to accept what we have to say about using them with teenagers. You probably won’t like hearing that most logical consequences are usually ineffective with teenagers. Because the main life tasks for teens involve testing their power, they see the use of logical consequences as a method to control them.
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Serra Küpçüoğluhas quoted6 years ago
What Is Follow-Through?

Follow-through is a respectful, four-step approach to parenting teens that teaches cooperation, life skills, and responsibility in spite of resistance. It works whether you are trying to move your teen away from the computer, to join the family, or to keep up responsibilities to themselves and the family. The key is that follow-through involves you, because you are the only one who does the follow-throug
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Serra Küpçüoğluhas quoted6 years ago
Giving up is another common form of neglect. Instead of controlling, parents simply try to ignore their child’s behavior, hoping fervently that it will go away by itself. It usually doesn’t. No matter how often teenagers say they want to be left alone, in reality they need and want some guidance. They still need a copilot. Even though they act as if they would like to throw you out of the plane, they feel abandoned if you go. What they want is a copilot who treats them with respect through kind and firm parenting.
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