To: Hildy
Teenagers are not that hard to handle if you have established a good relationship during their formative years. We told ours that they were now old enough to make their own decisions (as they were doing that anyway) so they were also old enough to be responsible for them. I told my son he could do anything that he wanted....but if he got in trouble he was on his own. He had fun - is still having fun in his young 30's - no trouble - worked for me.
Arch
9 posted on
01/08/2005 1:08:38 PM PST by
Archer24
To: Archer24
Teenagers are not that hard to handle if you have established a good relationship during their formative years. We told ours that they were now old enough to make their own decisions (as they were doing that anyway) so they were also old enough to be responsible for them. I told my son he could do anything that he wanted....but if he got in trouble he was on his own. He had fun - is still having fun in his young 30's - no trouble - worked for me.
Arch
AMEN, AMEN TO THAT!
My parents were the same way -- stern and yet knowing when to let us go out on our own, make our own mistakes and grow from them....
25 posted on
01/09/2005 7:08:49 AM PST by
ConservativeStLouisGuy
(11th FReeper Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Unnecessarily Excerpt)
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