19-Year-Old Parenting Tools

Mental health is an essential part of every teen's overall well-being. Nineteen-year-olds are navigating complex emotional landscapes as they develop into young adults, and these experiences can impact their mental health. Just like physical health, mental health requires attention, and it's vital to equip teens with skills to support their resilience and emotional well-being. Teens between the ag...

As a parent or someone in a parenting role, your influence is vital in your teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-teen relationship while instilling confidence in your teen to persist toward their goals and succeed in all areas of life. Everyone faces challenges, yet mistakes and failures are necessary for your nineteen-year-old’s learning and development. With your g...

Nineteen-year-olds require the ability to follow directions to get along at home and to succeed at school and work. Whether they are completing homework, following safety instructions, or showing their knowledge on tests, they will need to be able to follow directions. Though telling your teen to do something may seem simple enough, listening and engaging in several steps given in an instruction n...

As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-teen relationship, and setting up a daily homework routine provides an excellent opportunity.  Teens ages fifteen to nineteen are adapting their early school-age learning habits to meet their more demanding workload. They are establishing critical...

As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-teen relationship, and growing reading skills is a great way to do it.   Reading is essential for your teen’s success in school. Reading also plays a critical role in your teen’s  ●      social and emotional...

Trust is a vital foundation for healthy relationships. As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your nineteen-year-old’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-teen relationship and understand how to promote trust in your teen. Teens and emerging young adults ages 15-19 are in the process of exerting their independence and spending more time w...

Back Talk  Now Is the Right Time! As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-teen relationship and growing your teen’s skills to communicate respectfully provides an excellent opportunity.   Conflict happens in families -- between spouses, among siblings, and between parents and t...

Anger Now Is the Right Time! As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an important role in your teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-teen relationship. Growing your teen’s skills to manage anger provides an excellent opportunity.  Teens and emerging adults ages 15-19 still learn about their strong and changing feelings. They may not fully understand...

Disrespect Now Is the Right Time! As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your teen’s success. There are intentional ways to teach your teen to communicate well; working with them to transform disrespect is a great opportunity.    You can be purposeful and deliberate about responding when you feel your teen has shown disrespect through words or acti...

Listening Now Is the Right Time! As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-teen relationship while building valuable listening skills in your teen. Your teen’s success depends on their ability to listen and understand what you and others communicate. Listening skills can support your teen’s abi...

Chores Now Is the Right Time! As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-teen relationship, and involving them in daily chores provides a great opportunity.  Chores allow your teen to play a role in contributing to the maintenance and care of your family’s household. Teens and emerging youn...

Repairing Harm Now Is the Right Time! As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an important role in your teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-teen relationship. Teaching your teen to repair harm is an terrific opportunity.  Your support in growing the skill of repairing harm can help your teen develop social awareness -- “the ability to understand th...

Technology Use Now Is the Right Time! As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your teen’s success. There are intentional ways to foster a healthy parent-teen relationship and ensure they develop a healthy relationship with technology.  Technology use has become essential to your teen’s life and learning in school. It has the potential to play a role in: ●&nbs...

Teens ages 15-19 are actively asserting independence with confidence but may also feel fragile and insecure about their upcoming adult lives. They will naturally test limits and break rules. In fact, the conditions of adolescent development increase the likelihood that they will break rules, such as your teen’s need for risk taking, their need to belong and seek approval of peers, their desire for...

Now is the right time to become more attuned to the challenges regarding cannabis that may face your teen and how you can equip them for healthy choices and success. 

As a parent or those in a parenting role, you play a vital role in your teen’s success and growth. There are intentional ways to cultivate a healthy parent-teen relationship, and growing your teen’s skills to manage conflict provides a fantastic opportunity.

Now is the right time to gain awareness about your teen's challenges regarding alcohol and how you can position them for success and making healthy choices throughout life. 

As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play a crucial role in your teen’s development and success. There are intentional ways to foster a healthy parent-teen relationship, and daily routines provide an ideal opportunity. 

As a parent or those in a parenting role, you play a key role in supporting your teen to develop empathy. Empathy is the way people effectively relate to one another. It’s the ability to notice what other people are feeling, process that information, and respond in a compassionate manner. There are intentional ways to nurture a healthy parent-teen relationship while building your teen’s...

Experiencing stress is part of life for adults and teens. Stress is often caused by an external trigger like an angry sibling shouting, “ It’s your turn to take out the trash !” or a mom insisting a teen needs to postpone hanging out with a friend to work on a college application they have been avoiding. Feelings of stress are naturally built-in mechanisms for human survival and success. These fee...

As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play a valuable role in your teen’s success and health. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-teen relationship, and helping your teen learn how to handle peer pressure provides a perfect opportunity.

Teens will not only be noting differences in the world, they may be specifically seeking increased diversity as they launch into life after high school, whether that involves college or the world of work. Parents or  those in a parenting role can support teens as they make sense of differences among people by having open conversations with them about what they observe and creating trusti...

Nineteen-year-olds are working to understand how to act responsibly. They are: ● working to understand the rules and apply them in a variety of settings.  ● continually growing their independence.  ● taking care of their bodies (exercising, eating right).  ● building and growing their relationships (managing their feelings and impulses, empathizing and working through conflict, bein...

As a parent or those in a parenting role, you play a paramount role in your teen’s success. Helping your teen to grow healthy friendships is imperative. Through relationships, your teen develops a sense of belonging. They gain a better understanding of themselves through their daily interactions with you, their teachers, and their peers. 

As a parent or those in a parenting role, you play a valuable role in the success and health of your teen. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-teen relationship, and establishing rules about alcohol helps provide the supportive conditions that are important for your teen to handle risk.