Positive Discipline for Teenagers

Positive Discipline for Teenagers – Jane Nelsen

The teenage years can be a challenging time for both parents and children. As teens push for independence and test boundaries, parents may feel that they are losing control and struggle to know how to respond.

In Positive Discipline for Teenagers: Empowering Your Teens and Yourself Through Kind and Firm Parenting, Jane Nelsen and Lynn Lott apply the respected Positive Discipline approach to the adolescent years. Based on the ideas of Alfred Adler and Rudolf Dreikurs, Positive Discipline emphasizes mutual respect, encouragement and teaching life skills, rather than punishment or permissiveness.

The authors help parents understand the developmental tasks of adolescence and why teens behave as they do. They explain how to stay connected with teenagers, communicate effectively, set limits and follow through in ways that are both kind and firm, involve teens in solving problems and family decisions, and allow them to learn from their mistakes. They also address common issues such as school, friends, technology, curfews, drugs and alcohol, and sexuality, as well as how parents can manage their own emotions and reactions.

Practical tools, real-life examples and exercises help parents put the ideas into practice immediately.

Encouraging and wise, Positive Discipline for Teenagers is a valuable guide for parents, educators and counselors who want to build respectful relationships with teens and help them grow into capable, responsible adults.