We have all seen teens who are so disrespectful to their parents it makes our jaws drop. Maybe you’ve been one of those parents. Maybe your teenager has learned that he can verbally harass or physically intimidate you into relinquishing the car keys, abandoning his curfew, or looking the other way when his friends sneak alcohol into the house. Or maybe he has simply worn you out, so that when he says...
We use “typical teen behavior” to refer to a broad range of things our teens do, much of it unbecoming. Whenever they appear - moody - , or - stop talking to us - , or resist our reminders about everything from deadlines to hygiene, our go-to explanation is that "they’re just being typical teens." - But are they? Or have we just become so accustomed to thinking about adolescents as defiant and non-communicative...