Every conversation with my fifteen-year-old turns into a fight about rules and I miss when we used to laugh together but I don't know how to be both firm and fun.
More people experience this than they realize.
The relentless nature of adolescent limit-testing threatens to transform the parent-child relationship into an exhausting cycle of conflict and enforcement.
“Where Are You with Authoritative vs. authoritarian parenting?”
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