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  • Mess It Up, Clean It Up (4-14-2010)

     

    PODCAST SCRIPT:

    If there is one thing that parents need to teach their teenager, it is the concept, “If you mess it up, you clean it up.” And that applies to more than trashing the car.

    Teenagers need to learn that someone else isn’t going to clean up their messes for them. Not only messes like what they leave in the kitchen, but also the messes they make in their relationships and with the authorities in their life. A parent who always picks up the messes for their teen, teaches them that they aren’t responsible for what they do.

    I’ve found that when a teen has to clean up their own messes, they miraculously begin making less messes to begin with.


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