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How to help your teen become independent

parenting
Overreacting to your teen‘s actionsis an ineffective method of control
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How can parents help a teenager move more smoothly toward independence? By protecting, preaching or inoculating? The most common method used by Christian parents involves completely controlling the teenager’s environment.

The parents make the decisions when it comes to choice of entertainment, friends, clothes, music, reading material, television shows, and movies. Most likely they place the teenager in a Christian school in an attempt to shield her from wrong influences and reinforce Christian principles.

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