Teach Your Teen To Be Wise

Intellectual humility—understanding that you still have a lot to learn and being okay with that—is an aspect of wisdom that benefits teens as they move toward adulthood. Want to raise a teen with intellectual humility? Help them consider their behavior from someone else’s perspective. Make sure they don’t see people who disagree with them as inferior—people with different points-of-view help you learn. In fact, reframe arguments as opportunities to learn about others or explore their beliefs. Finally, get teens to acknowledge the limits of their knowledge to help them understand it’s a big world with much to experience.

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