| Parenting a teenager is not about getting the right | | | | They understand they can do what they want, with or |
| magic spell to manage your out of control teenager. It | | | | without consequences, making their decisions while |
| is about being yourself and to be OK with whom you | | | | their body changing and with a lot of hormones running |
| are, and to let your teenager find out whom they are. | | | | amok in their body. Think about how your life would be |
| There are hopes for out of control teens, and there is | | | | if you made all your decisions in a PMS mode. Well we |
| hope for you as a parent. For now I just want to say | | | | do not do this and even most of the decisions a |
| you are not alone. It is not like you have some rare | | | | woman make in a PMS mode has already been |
| disease that none has thought of to find a cure for. | | | | thought through. The decisions our teenager are many |
| Try if you can remember all the thoughts that went | | | | times not thought through, they have less control and |
| through your head as a teenager? | | | | this make them out of control teens. |
| Probably not even though we think we do. The time | | | | Our role is to be there for them, helping them think |
| as a teenager is the time they try to find themselves. | | | | things through, make them aware of the |
| They would like to know who are they are without | | | | consequences and support them in their decision. And |
| their parent? Yes, we know all this you say. Problem is | | | | just love them. |
| their thoughts and analytic ability is not always stabile. | | | | |