17-Year-Old Parenting Tools

Mental health is an important part of every teen's overall well-being. Seventeen-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 essential to equip teens with skills to support their resilience and emotional well-being. Teens between t...

As a parent or someone in a parenting role, your influence is essential 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 seventeen-year-old’s learning and development. With y...

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, and growing skills in reading 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 emotion...

Seventeen-year-olds require the ability to follow directions to get along at home and to succeed at school. 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, listening and engaging in several steps given in an instruction necessitates num...

As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play a vital 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 a perfect opportunity.  Teens ages fifteen to nineteen are adapting their early school-age learning habits to meet their more demanding workload. They are establishing critical learning...

Trust is foundational for healthy relationships. As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your seventeen-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 with p...

Chores 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, and daily chores provide a perfect opportunity.  Chores allow your teen to play a role in contributing to the maintenance and care of your family’s household. Teens and emerging young adults ages 15-...

Listening Now Is the Right Time! As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play a vital role in your teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-teen relationship while building essential 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 ability...

Anger 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. 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...

Technology Use Now Is the Right Time! As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play a vital role in your teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow 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: ● &nbsp...

Back Talk  Now Is the Right Time! As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play a vital 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 a perfect opportunity.   Conflict happens in families -- between spouses, among siblings, and between parents and teens. Ar...

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

Repairing Harm Now Is the Right Time! As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play a vital 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 excellent opportunity.  Your support in growing the skill of repairing harm can help your teen develop social awareness -- “the ability to understand the pe...

As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your teen’s healthy development and success. There are intentional ways to cultivate a healthy parent-teen relationship, and helping your teen learn how to manage peer pressure provides a perfect opportunity.

As a parent or those in a parenting role, you play a key role in your teen’s success and development. Your support of your teen growing and maintaining healthy friendships is imperative. Your teen increases their sense of belonging through their relationships. Through their interactions with you, their teachers, and their peers, they come to better understand themselves. 

As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play a vital role in your teen’s healthy growth and success. There are intentional ways to foster a healthy parent-teen relationship, and establishing rules about cannabis helps create the supportive conditions necessary for your teen to deal with risk appropriately.

Now is the right time to become more knowledgeable about the challenges your teen may face regarding alcohol and how you can help them grow their skills for success. 

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

Both teens and adults experience stress. Stress is generally caused by an external trigger like a frustrated sibling shouting, “ You can’t wear my new shirt !” or a parent or those in a parenting role insisting a teen come home from a friend’s house and work on chores they’ve been avoiding. Feelings of stress are naturally built-in mechanisms for human thriving and survival. These feelings are you...

As a parent or those in a parenting role, you play a valuable role in your teen’s development. There are intentional ways to foster a healthy parent-teen relationship while growing a sense of confidence in your teen that they can work to accomplish goals and succeed in school and the world.

Teens will not only be noticing differences in the world, they may be actively seeking more diversity as they prepare to venture 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 talking to them about what they notice and creating a trusting, safe space to raise i...

Seventeen-year-olds are working to understand what it means to act responsibly. They are: ● figuring out how rules apply in various settings.  ● working on their growing independence.  ● caring for their bodies (eating right, getting exercise).  ● building and maintaining relationships (managing their feelings and impulses, empathizing and working through conflict, being depend...

Now is the right time to become more knowledgeable regarding the challenges related to cannabis that your teen may encounter and how you can help them grow their skills for success. 

Teens ages 15-19 are actively engaged in finding ways to assert their independence with confidence but may also feel insecure and vulnerable about their future adult lives. They will naturally test limits and break rules. In fact, some of the conditions of adolescent development increase the chance that they will break rules, such as your teen’s need for risk taking, their desire for increasing in...

As a parent or those in a parenting role, you play a crucial role in helping your teen to develop empathy. Empathy is the way people relate effectively to one another. It’s the ability to notice what others are feeling, understand that information, and respond in a compassionate manner. There are intentional ways to cultivate a healthy parent-teen relationship while increasing yourteen’s...