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Teens and Personal Freedom: How Much is Healthy? - 6/21/2009 10:30:10 PM
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When children reach their teen years, it becomes their parents’ responsibility to know when to let go and when to pull in the reins. Adolescence is typically a time for exploration, for testing boundaries and experimenting with self-expression.
Teens and Personal Freedom: How Much is Healthy?
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RE: Teens and Personal Freedom: How Much is Healthy? - 6/21/2009 10:30:10 PM
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ugh i wish my mom would read this me and my brother are always locked inside the house cleaning 24/7. we never have time to een go outside when we do you always here this "SHARELL, VINCENT GET IN IHERE AND CLEAN UP" it's about time that some one knows to give there teens freedom were already 16 and 15 we know right from wrong
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RE: Teens and Personal Freedom: How Much is Healthy? - 4/19/2010 9:06:37 PM
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I don't allow my kids to go out on week-nights but I let them go out on week-ends as long as I know who they're out with and where their going. They also have to be home by 9:00. They are 16 and 14 years old
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RE: Teens and Personal Freedom: How Much is Healthy? - 4/20/2010 5:15:23 PM
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ugh i wish my mom would read this me and my brother are always locked inside the house cleaning 24/7. we never have time to een go outside when we do you always here this "SHARELL, VINCENT GET IN IHERE AND CLEAN UP" it's about time that some one knows to give there teens freedom were already 16 and 15 we know right from wrong
sharell
I bet your mom would enjoy some freedom too. Freedom from cleaning up after growing teenagers. No sympathy for you from this corner at all. First of all 24/7 is an exaggeration. Second, you're both big enough to see a mess and know it needs done. Your mom shouldn't have to constantly tell you to do it. You guys are part of the household so you help out. Mine has done it from an early age. It's all part of being a family. And when you give, you get.
Ever think that if you both were proactive and cleaned up BEFORE being asked, she may feel more like giving you the time to yourselves that you want? Moms get tired of yelling for help too, you know, and it sure doesn't make us feel like granting you any favors when we have to beg you to help tidy up! Get with your brother and figure out how and when to do it before being asked. Do it often and you'll keep the tidying to a minimum plus your mom happy.
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RE: Teens and Personal Freedom: How Much is Healthy? - 4/20/2010 10:51:10 PM
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As parents, we had to know when to turn them loose to make their first steps on their own. We also have to know when to gradually start leading them into life away from home... making decisions, choosing the right type of friends, following dating guidelines, establishing trust... are going where you said you are going and returning when asked. These type decisions need parental guidance... we can't wait until they are ready to leave home and go to college to help reinforce that life decisions come with consequences, good and bad. If we wait until they are 17, 18 -- ready to go off to college, we won't be there to tell them that there is life after their first heart break... that they won't be hauled off to jail after their first fender bender, which can be traumatic (and yes, they are going to happen), and we will miss the opportunity to establish a stronger bond, hopefully built on trust and respect with our children.
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RE: Teens and Personal Freedom: How Much is Healthy? - 11/6/2011 8:30:49 PM
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you should start by taking to them staright no strings attachim a teen myself and hope that aswell but evrything comes in is own time
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