Chapter 10. Supporting Your Teenagers

In this chapter:

  • Agreeing where the schedule can bend and where it can't

  • Balancing your teenager's freedom with responsibility in the family's schedule

  • Developing your teenager's time-management skills

  • Finding the right college

“Where are you going?”

“Out.”

This classic exchange between parent and teenager sheds a lot of light on the challenges of maintaining a smooth-running family schedule when teenagers are involved. A teenager's desires to be treated as a grown-up and to be independent will cause him to be less than cheerfully cooperative when confronted with a family schedule that is not of his design or choosing. In addition, adolescents begin to feel pressures and add responsibilities from outside the ...

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