LibraryScenariosHow to maintain connection while enforcing boundaries
Scenario

How to maintain connection while enforcing boundaries

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.

Rabia
Online
The coach is replying

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The relentless nature of adolescent limit-testing threatens to transform the parent-child relationship into an exhausting cycle of conflict and enforcement.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Authoritative vs. authoritarian parenting?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.