{"id":313,"date":"2009-10-22T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/parenting-teens"},"modified":"2010-03-09T16:17:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T00:17:58","slug":"parenting-teenagers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/parenting-teenagers","title":{"rendered":"It’s really okay for your teens to hate you"},"content":{"rendered":"

Parenting teenagers is a difficult topic.  No one can tell you how to be a parent; especially of a teenager. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

[ Read the full article about parenting teenagers.]<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Like teens, parents are not amenable to listening to other people – at least not usually. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If someone tells you that you need to be a stricter parent or to spend more or less time with your teenager when you do not believe this is the way to parent – would you listen to them?<\/p>\n

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That said – teens need rules.  Teens do not need more and more freedom even though that is what they tell you they need and want. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

As a parent you need to set limits for all your kids – they bump against the limits and fight them but that is a good thing.  It's how they learn what are the rules for our culture.  If you keep moving the limits as kids bang against them – they never understand limits.  Kids are very good at the "gimme gimme gimme" game and it is perfectly fine to say "no no no" to them. <\/p>\n

\tI never said it was easy having a teen in the house – in fact it can be downright nasty. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Parenting teenagers is a difficult topic.  No one can tell you how to be a parent; especially of a teenager.  [ Read the full article about parenting teenagers.] Like teens, parents are not amenable to listening to other people – at least not usually.  If someone tells you that you need to be a stricter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[370,372,386,533,387,374,365,362],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology-and-parenting","tag-adolescents","tag-parent-parents","tag-parenting-teenagers","tag-psychology-and-parenting","tag-strict-parenting","tag-teenager","tag-teenagers","tag-teens","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}