Children

Children

As Dr. William Sears, a world renowned Author, and Pediatrician (2006) described, discipline as “giving your child the tools to succeed in life. Doing whatever you have to do to like living with your children. Helping your child to develop inner controls that last a lifetime” (Discipline and Behavior, para. 1). Parenting can be described as the hardest job in the world, especially during the teen years.   Teenagers are best known for being obstinate, difficult, argumentative, and self centered. Most parents would concur; it is madding having a civil conversation with a raging hormonal teenager. Conflicts are an inevitable part of any relationship. However, parents with adolescents feel conflicts are never-ending. While there are countless parenting books, support groups, and self help guides, the anguish over teenager parent conflict continues.
My research will include investigating the parents of young adults just finishing teenager years. Hopefully they can share regrets, mistakes, or great accomplishments in their parenting strategies. My goal in this research is to find out best, and most effective discipline strategies for parents with teens.

Literature Review:
In America today, there are many books, literature articles, fact sheets addressing the struggles parents face raisings teens. As teenagers need to achieve independence, and break away, it often comes across as a battlefield. Parents have an especially difficult time when their kids previously obeyed them, then in complete contrast total rebellion against authority and parental control.
One of the peer review journals that I read was titled “Differentiating Parent Practices to Adolescent Behavior in the Free Time Context”. This study examines adolescent’s free time and parenting influences. The study looks at the influence parents have over managing, and overseeing their teenager’s free time. This study looked at parenting strategies in regard to control, regulating, and supporting...