| In Teenage Parenting, understanding teenager | | | | gracefully without the teenager appearing to be weak |
| developmental needs will help parents to respond | | | | or childish. |
| appropriately to the situation and this will help in | | | | Teenagers typically give their mothers a more difficult |
| reducing conflict and defiance. In Teenage Parenting, | | | | time than their fathers during the developmental need |
| we will look at the different teenager development | | | | stage. Teenager will identify who is the weaker link |
| needs. | | | | and will then attack and test that weak link to get |
| One of the primary teenager developmental needs is | | | | what he or she want. In our society , the mother has a |
| the need to become independent of their parent. It is a | | | | bigger exposure to the teenager as the mother spend |
| self preservation instinct for teenager to develop an | | | | a lot more time with the teenager than the father and |
| independent streak. This is the time when the teenager | | | | also the father is usually the authoritative figure in the |
| will be testing the parent limit and breaking rules in | | | | family. This is why the mother is usually given a more |
| order to establish his independence. Here the parent | | | | difficult time by the teenager. The father needs to |
| has to figure out where they need to compromise or | | | | provide support to the mother and act as a team in |
| negotiate and where they need to stand firm. | | | | dealing with the situation. |
| As teenagers become independent of their parents, | | | | Friends begin to play a bigger role during the teenager |
| they will start to define their own identity .This is where | | | | development need stage .This is a stage where the |
| it is normal for the teenagers to reject their parent | | | | teenager will spend more time with friends than with |
| ideas, opinions and values in favor of their friend ideas, | | | | the parent. Here the teenager will want to develop |
| opinions and values. The parent has to accept this fact | | | | closer peer relationship to fulfill a sense of belonging in |
| and not to be too emotional about it. | | | | the group. The parent should play a role in supporting |
| While searching for their own identity, they do not want | | | | the teenager need but should set negotiable and non |
| to appear weak especially to their peers and parents. | | | | negotiable boundaries to ensure a safe environment |
| When in a situation that has the potential to lead into a | | | | for the teenager. |
| conflict, find a way for your teenager to give in | | | | |