My 15 year old daughters reaction to "Laptop dad"

[seabeyond]

149. point. for me that is absolutely the point. as opposed to saying

this is the teens job. to write a letter like that about the parent. as a teen i could never imagine. as a teen, i got where parents were coming from and *gasp* i respected parents and trusted my mom before anyone else in my world.

i have watched over the decades our teens conditioned that there are behaviors that they are suppose to do. because society says they are. my kids had the opportunity to watch older nieces adn nephews and we would often have conversation how disney channel and society conditioned teens to behave, in the most disrepectful manner. that it was not a given a teen would behave like that. as a matter of fact, if they did..... they wouldnt have trust and respect. so they wouldnt have the freedom they would crave at that age. so they had better damn well not behave like that, lol.

worked for us.

boundaries are the best for 2, 3, 4 yr olds. they love them, need them to know how far they can go to allow some control in their very confusing little world.

as much as we think teens want that freedom, it is no different a decade later. they need, want those boundaries so they can have that structure in a very scary time of their lives.