Disciplining Your Pre-Teen or Teen!

If you’re a parent or step parent, you know how challenging it is living with that emotional, tied to their phone, hormone-filled, ever-changing, friend-focused human being that lives down the hall from you! If you’re not a parent or step-parent… think back to your teens and all the things you did and thought, got in trouble for, and most importantly never got caught doing. Yeah! But, no matter how much your teen drives you crazy… they are yours, you love them, and would do anything for them! That anything MUST include discipline. For some, discipline comes easy. For others, discipline is the hardest and most exhausting thing to do. No matter how this plays out for you… without discipline, your child will become entitled, obnoxious, more difficult to live with, and potentially unsafe to themselves, others, and you. If you struggle to discipline a 4 or 8 year old, it doesn’t get easier when they are older, bigger, and stronger.

The first thing to realize is... most people will discipline the same way they were disciplined or purposely decide to do a 180-degree shift to do things differently. Whether you are the strict parent or the relaxed one… Read more and EVOLVE at www.youevolvingnow.com

written by: Andre Young