Rules, Limits, and Responsibilities
Learn about setting limits, establishing rules, and teaching responsibility.
- Chores and Teens (27)
- Discipline (41)
- Money Management (29)
- Parenting Contracts
- Prejudice (8)
- Teaching Teens Good Manners (2)
- Teen Driving (33)
- Teen Jobs (18)
- Teen Lying: Help and Advice (8)
- Teens At Risk Behaviors (20)
- Troubled Teens
- Trust Between Parents and Teens (5)
Help Your Teen Overcome Procrastination
Procrastination is a regular problem many teens face, sometimes daily. Often parents try to fix this behavior through reward or punishment. As procrastination has underlying reasons, these fixes don't work as well as parents would hope, leaving us and our teens frustrated. Here are some tips to help your teen overcome procrastination.
Overcoming Procrastination Tips for Parents of Teens
Article for teens and parents: Overcoming Procrastination Tips for Parents of Teens, Help Your Teen Overcome Procrastination
Curfews: How to Give Your Teen a Curfew
Curfews help provide routines and by setting them parents are helping their teens become confident young adults.
Quiz: Are You a Pushover Parent?
Are your children are holding the reins in your parent-child relationship or are you standing on firm ground with your discipline techniques? Find out here.
Talking Points for Teens: 10 Reasons Why Cheating is Wrong
Teens do not always understand why cheating is wrong. Here are ten reasons why cheating is wrong which you can use while talking with your teen.
Discipline Children and Teens Without the Guilt
Parents can shed the guilt and start to change. Your child or teenager will respond and change for the better as well. Use these five tips to start disciplining without the guilt today.
Manners Your Teen Should Use Regularly and How to Teach Them
A listing of good manners your teen should use and how parents can teach their teenagers to use them.
What does negative criticism do to a teen?
Part of a discipline and communication FAQ for parents of teens: What does negative criticism do to a teen?
At what age can my teenager vote?
The voting age in the United States is the age in which your teenager can begin participating in government elections.
Teach Your Teen to Get Up in the Morning and Use an Alarm Clock Correctly
Article for parents of teenagers Teach Your Teen to Get up in the morning Use an Alarm Clock Correctly
5 Steps to Good Decision-Making Skills for Teens
Article on parenting skills for parents of teens - 5 Steps to Good Decision-Making Skills for Teens
Summer Tips for Parents of Teens
What family routines, rules and responsibilities change in your home over the long summer break for you and your teen? Parents share their thoughts and advice.
Help Your Teen Regain Trust
Article for parents and teens: How to Help Your Teen Regain Trust
Delegate a Responsibility to Your Teen
When your teen needs to learn how to complete a task.
Active Listening
An important communication skill to learn when you have to discipline a teenager.
Door Openers verses Door Slammers
A communication skill with examples. Often times we use door slammers when we discipline.
Learn to Fall Back and Regroup In 5 Easy Steps
A discipline technique used when you make a mistake. This happens often in a normal family, so get this technique down.
What should we do now?
FAQ for parents of teens Our teen had a party while we were away and there was underage drinking. What should we do?
Logical & Natural Consequences
Whats the difference? Is one better than the other?
Setting Limits & Rules
Top 5 tips on setting the rules and establishing limits.
Sibling Rivalry
Sibling Rivalry - how to deal with teenager siblings who are fighting.
Teach Positive Values - 5 Ways People With Strong Moral Fiber Act
Read this article to see what values are and how they contribute to building a strong moral fiber – a chief component to success in life.
What is the age of maturity? When does my teen reach the legal age of maturity?
Age of maturity is a legal term for the age of when a child reaches adulthood and has all of the rights and privileges of an adult. In the United States, the age of maturity is determined by the state or territory in which the family resides.
What Is Discipline?
What do you think of when you think of discipline? Is it about punishing a child to make her behave? Or is it about teaching proper behavior? Read all about it here.
Youth Risk Behaviors
A listing of risk behaviors and the differences between the sexes and which behaviors they do.
Career Planning Process
When you choose a career you should go through a four step process. These four steps are self, options, match, and action. Learn what all this means and how going through each step is a vital part of choosing a career in which you can find happiness.
Employment Laws, Information, and Guidelines
Everything you need to know about employment law, including child labor laws.
Interview Tips
Tips that will help your teenager land a part time or summer job.
Job Search for Teens
Are you a teen looking for a job? Here are some tips to help you get going on your search.
Job Search Tips
Here are some quick time-saving tips that will help your job search go smoothly.
Parents Overestimate Children's Bike, Car Safety Habits
Parents think their children use bicycle helmets and seatbelts more often than children say they use them, according to a new study by a University of Michigan Health System pediatric surgeon.
Easy Chores for Kids and Teens
Easy chores for kids and teens involved simple tasks that can be done in a few minutes at most. They become good habits for our children to have and should definitely be listed on your family's chore chart.
