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What do you do with an irresponsible teenager?
10 Strategies for Dealing with a Defiant Teen
- Tie Privileges to Good Behavior. What your teen might consider as necessities are really privileges that they should have to earn.
- Avoid Repetition.
- Enforce Consequences.
- Have a Plan.
- Praise Good Behavior.
- Teach Problem Solving.
- Focus on One Behavior.
- Pick your Battles.
How do you deal with a perfectionist child?
How to Address Perfectionism
- Help your child develop healthy self-esteem.
- Help your child identify what she can control and what she can’t.
- Model healthy self-talk.
- Monitor your expectations.
- Praise your child’s efforts rather than the outcome.
- Set realistic goals with your child.
- Share stories of your own failures.
How to deal with a child who won’t do time?
1. Use Consequences That Have Meaning 2. Don’t Try to Appeal to His Emotions with Speeches 3. Make Consequences Black and White 4. Talk to Your Child About Effective Problem-Solving 5. Don’t Get Sucked into an Argument over Consequences 6. Don’t Teach Your Child How to “Do Time” 7. Engage Your Child’s Self-interest
How do you deal with a child who doesn’t care about consequences?
Their sense of self almost requires them to respond by shrugging and saying, “Whatever,” simply in order to feel in control again. Focus on what you want your child to learn from the consequence—not whether or not he’s going to care. Personally, I don’t think parents should worry too much when their child appears not to be affected.
How do I deal with my teenager’s bad behavior?
When you feel upset or challenged by a teen, before you say or do something that may worsen the situation, take a deep breath and count slowly to ten. In many instances, by the time you reach ten, you would have regained composure, and figured out a better response to the issue, so that you can reduce, instead of exacerbate the problem.
How do you deal with a defiant teenager?
How To Handle Your Defiant Teen 1 Accept your child as is. Whatever situation you are going through right now with your child, you need to accept him or her as is. 2 Acknowledge them. I am always amazed at the power of a simple thank you or acknowledgement has on people. 3 Stay calm and centered. 4 Stop being attached to the outcome.