Parenting Teens: Balancing Trust and Control Online #shorts

At the same time, they're children, so they're still kind of developing. The point is that even if we need to distance them a little bit more from certain challenges because they seem to be particularly weak in their ability to have self-control in those areas, we can still give them other areas where we show them we absolutely trust you. So, a kid who is really struggling with looking at pornography as an example and he's 17 years old and he has a license doesn't mean that we should be using you want to say well maybe you shouldn't have your own device and maybe you should only use a family device or maybe your device should always be out of the room and it should be plugged in in the kitchen and you shouldn't be going to sleep at night with it in your bedroom etc etc.