Life can be tough for teens. The body is changing in exciting and sometimes challenging ways. Adult life seems just around the corner and is both enticing and frightening. School is suddenly much more demanding and the future seems more difficult rather than less. Issues such as whether to use drugs or not, to have sex or not, to follow the gang or to adhere to family values, are very much part of daily choices.
Elizabeth explains that parents have a very significant role to play in supporting their teenage children through their complex stages of growth and that doing so takes lots of time and energy. She suggests that parents need to act as coaches, bosses, mates, leaders, role models, supporters and disciplinarians to their teenagers.
She discusses what parents can do to support their children through the teen years and how to balance the need for strong authority at times with the need to support developing autonomy.
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