Keys to Family Happiness/Keys to Success

 To prepare your children for adulthood, you need to help him develop his "power of reason"  so that he will be able to make sound decisions on his own.  (Romans 12:1, 2)   The following Bible principles will help you to do that.

Philippians 4:5: "Let your reasonableness become known." Your teenager  makes a request. for perhaps for a later curfew. You immediately refuse it.  Your additional whines"Your treating me like a child!'  Before replying,  Well, you're acting like one," consider the following:  Teenagers tend to demand more freedom than they can handle, but parents may extend less freedom than they could grant. Might it be that you could make a concession from time to time?  Why not at least think about your teen's point of view?

Try this: Write down one or two areas in which you could extend a little more freedom to your adolescent. Explain to him that you are extending this freedom on a trial basis. If he handles it responsibly, he  can be granted more.  If he does not do so, the freedom he has been granted will be curtailed. - Matthew 25:21. 

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