Advice from teens in answer to the question, What advice would teenagers give parents? What do they believe it takes to produce respectful and respectable teens?
- Don’t allow your children to bring company into the house, unless you know them personally.
- Don’t let your small kids watch a lot of television. If you do, they will adopt the bad attitudes seen on tv and end up not respecting you.
- When trying to talk to your children about a private subject like sex, just sensitively say it. If you beat around the bush, it makes you both nervous.
- Look for things that are good about your children instead of constantly finding ways to put them down.
- Be consistent in what you say; follow through with your decision.
- When you let your children go out, give them a curfew. Let them know you love them and want them to be safe.
- Play with your kids. Have fun and laugh.
- Fathers, tell your daughter you love her often. If you don’t, she will go out looking for love in boys or friends, but she will never find the kind of love she wants.
- Accept the fact that adults are not always right. If you’re wrong, admit it.
- Teach your children that a true friend will understand that when you say no, you mean no.
- Don’t hold the past against your child. What happened, happened; it cannot be changed.
- If your daughter tells you she is not having sex, believe her.
- Guide your children toward good marriages by giving them a good example to follow.
