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WISE DECISIONS
1. Give your teen the opportunity to make choices about food, clothes, and other non-critical areas, even when it's easier to simply issue a command.
2. Ask for your teen's opinion about what should be done in various situations.
3. Let your teen be the one to decide if more practice on a task or skill is needed before trying something harder.
4. Permit your teen to decide how to solve problems, even though you would find it quicker to provide a solution. Explore together the possible consequences if certain choices are made.
5. Let your teen offer concrete evidence to show a readiness for new privileges or responsibilities.
6. When conflicts arise, request that your teen take some responsibility for resolving them in a way that will work for all involved.
7. If your teen is angry, have him or her cool down rather than make a rash decision.
8. Give your teen the space to make poor (but not life-threatening) decisions. Teens, like us all, often learn from mitakes.
9. Offer your support and understandng when your teen makes mistake in judgment. Then discipline as needed.
10. Acknowledge your teen's good decisions. Point them out when made and refer to them when future decisions are required.
Remember...Wise decision making comes from practice and encouragement
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This page was last updated: Monday, April 10, 2006 at 7:40:16 AM
This page was originally posted: 4/10/06; 7:39:27 AM.
Copyright 2009 Miguel Juarez Middle School
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