Week 11 - Chapter 16

Teenagers are known for testing limits and disobeying parents. This can strain the parent-child relationship, as well as put the adolescent into dangerous situations. It is vital that parents keep a strong influence in their teenagers' lives and the ability to impose limits on their teenager's actions, while still preparing them for impending independence. In 3-6 sentences, discuss one way that parents can do this. Please draw on the readings and/or your personal experience.

Ways that parents keep a strong influence on their children's lives and keep their ability to impose limits is to show support and use empathetic responses.  Show support by foster the self-regulated learning that is important to adolescent growth.  This can be accomplished in the school setting by using more "role-playing" where students get the opportunity to respond to a situation in a learning environment and receive feedback.  I think this type of learning environment is good because it allows a young person to think critically about a process and come up with a solution.  If the solution isn't feasible or doesn't result in the desired outcome, feedback is used to encourage change in the thought process.  According to Santrock, another way adults can foster self-regulatory thinking in adolescents is to teach goal setting.  By setting goals, adolescents learn to adjust their thinking to accomplish the desired goal.

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