Parenting Todays Teens Radio
  • Maturity Untangled (4-20-2010)

     

    PODCAST SCRIPT:

    Parents can help a teen move toward maturity by holding them accountable to untangle their own entanglements.

    When kids are young, their parents will protect them at all costs. But in the teen years, parents need to back off on fixing their problems. For instance, if they get a ticket for driving too fast, they need to pay the fine on their own. If they spend their allowance foolishly and run out of gas money, then they need to take the bus. If they are ever put in jail for something they did, they need to know they’ll not be quickly bailed out.

    The point is this…teens who deal with their own mistakes tend to make less of them.


    Comments are closed.