What Are Your Hot Oven Issues?

Teen parents, this is your mission today: Identify your hot oven issues. We’re not talking about your actual oven, we’re talking about your teen’s need to take risks (it’s how they grow) and your need to keep them safe. Think about when your kids were little. When you taught them how to bake, you didn’t freak out if they got flour on the floor. Mess was a reasonable risk in order to have those moments. But putting their tiny hands in a hot oven was NOT a reasonable risk. You set limits. Do that again by finding boundaries you won’t let them stray beyond.

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About Melissa Ford

Melissa Ford is the senior strategist at Women Online. As a writer, she covers a diverse range of topics including education, health, technology, and parenting. She is also the mother of amazing twin teens.

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