A speaker discusses how parents can shift from controlling children to guiding them as they grow older, addressing the challenge of giving teenagers more freedom while staying involved in their lives.
The younger they are, the more you need to, in some cases, control what they do because they might do something to hurt themselves, like, don't play with fire, don't walk on a high wall because you might fall off. So those things they. And then gradually, the parent needs to learn to allow a bit more, always a bit more freedom and a bit more just give guidance rather than control. Some parents find it hard to shift from exerting control as they grow older and giving guidance. And as teenagers especially, they resent, as you know, and everybody knows, they resent being told what to do because they're beginning to be independent adults. Well, she knows everything. Yes, of course. Yes.
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