Let Teenagers Handle Life

Give your teenager the skills to handle life, rather than handling it for them.

Young people need to become confident about a number of things, including:

• knowing they can work out problems if they stick with them
  
  
• knowing that a problem in one part of their lives doesn’t mean their whole life is a mess
  
  
• taking responsibility, but not for everything that goes wrong – it’s not always their fault
  
  
• remembering to take responsibility for what goes right.

These are things even adults sometimes need to be reminded about.