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  • Fuel on the Flames (3-16-2010)

     

    PODCAST SCRIPT:

    How parents respond to their teenager’s occasional mess-ups is important.

    Sometimes a parent can throw fuel on the flames by superheating the situation with their own anger.

    So, here’s my advice. Allow the consequences to do the teaching, not your anger. Reasonable consequences will build maturity in your teen, anger will build resentment and short-circuit what the teen may have learned from their mistake.

    A good way to defuse anger is to recall your own mistakes at that age. It will help cool things down so you can deal more effectively with your teen’s mistake and the application of consequences.

    Then, one day both of you will be able to laugh at some of the stupid stunts you both pulled when you were teenagers.


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