Help Teens Develop Self-Control

You may have thought you were large and in-charge when your teen was a baby, but you’ve actually been naturally shifting control to your teen for years by helping your child learn they have the resilience to figure out solutions to their own problems. This is the time to pass the baton, and you do that through discipline. Discipline means “to teach”—it’s the opposite of controlling. In fact, the person in control when you discipline is your teen. They demonstrate responsibility and you put them in-charge of their life more and more until they’re ready for adulthood.

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