14-Year-Old Parenting Tools

Mental health is vital to well-being, especially during the middle school years when teens are developing emotionally and facing new social and academic challenges. Just like physical health, mental health needs attention and support. At this age, fourteen-year-olds benefit from learning skills to help them manage emotions and build resilience. Children/teens aged 11-14 are going through many tran...

As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your child’s/teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-child relationship, and setting up a homework routine provides a terrific opportunity.  Children/Teens ages 11-14 are in the process of adapting early school-age learning habits to their more demanding workload. They are establishing critic...

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-child/teen relationship, and growing reading skills is a great way to do it.     Reading is essential for your child’s/teen’s success in school. Reading also plays a critical role in your child’s/teen’s  ●   &nbsp...

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 fourteen-year-old’s learning and development. With your g...

Fourteen-year-olds require the ability to follow directions to get along at home and to succeed at school. Whether they are completing chores, following safety instructions, completing assignments, 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 in instruction nece...

Trust is truly foundational for healthy relationships. As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play a vital role in your fourteen-year-old’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-child/teen relationship and understand how to promote trust in your child/teen. Lying represents an important milestone in your child’s/teen’s thinking as they learn that others have differe...

As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your child’s/teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-child relationship, and daily chores provide an excellent opportunity.  Chores allow your child/teen to play a role in contributing to the maintenance and care of your family’s household. Children/teens ages 11-14 are establishing lifestyle...

As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play a valuable role in your child’s/teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-child relationship. Growing your child’s/teen’s skills to manage anger provides a terrific opportunity.   Children age 11-14 are still in the process of learning about their strong and changing feelings. They do not fully understand the...

As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your child’s/teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-child relationship, and growing your child’s/teen’s skills to respectfully communicate provides an excellent opportunity.   Conflict happens in families between spouses, among siblings, and between parents and children/teens. Arguing i...

As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your child’s/teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-child/teen relationship while building necessary listening skills in your child/teen. Your child’s/teen’s success depends upon their ability to listen and understand what you and others are communicating. Listening skills can support your child’...

As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play a crucial role in your child’s/teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-child/teen relationship and ensure that your child/teen develops a healthy relationship with technology. Technology use has become essential to your child’s/teen’s life and learning in school. It has the potential to play a role in: ●  &n...

As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your child’s//teen’s success. There are intentional ways to teach your child/teen to communicate well; working with them to transform disrespect is an excellent opportunity.    You can be purposeful and deliberate about how you respond when you feel your child/teen has shown disrespect through words or actions...

As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play a crucial role in your child’s/teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-child relationship. Teaching your child/teen to repair harm is a terrific opportunity.  Your support in growing the skill of repairing harm can help your child/teen develop social awareness -- “the ability to understand the perspectives of and...

As a parent or those in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your teen's success. There are intentional ways to cultivate a healthy parent-teen relationship, and creating rules about alcohol helps promote the supportive conditions that are essential for your teen to handle risk.

As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play a critical role in your teen's success. There are intentional ways to foster a healthy parent-teen relationship, and assisting your teen in learning how to deal with peer pressure provides a valuable opportunity.

Teens continually note differences in their world. Parents or those in a parenting role have an opportunity to support teens as they make sense of differences among people by talking to them about what they notice.

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 establishing rules about cannabis helps create the supportive conditions that equip your teen to manage risk.

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

Now is the right time to increase your awareness about the challenges regarding cannabis that may face your child/teen and how you can support their success and healthy decision-making.

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

Fourteen-year-olds are working to understand what it means to act responsibly. They are: ● working to understand the rules and apply them in multiple settings.  ● working to gain their independence.  ● increasingly taking care of their bodies (exercising, eating right).  ● learning about growing and maintaining relationships (managing their feelings and impulses, working throug...

Teens and adults alike feel stress. Stress is the physical or mental response to an external cause, such as an argument within a friend group or struggling with a big school project. Feelings of stress are built-in mechanisms for human survival and safety. These feelings are the body’s way of warning you when there is a threat and calling your focus to problems that need attention. A str...

As a parent or those in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your teen’s success and development. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-teen relationship, and growing your teen’s skills to manage conflict provides an ideal opportunity.

Children/Teens ages 11-14 are asserting their independence while still being dependent on important adults in their lives. They will naturally test limits and break rules as they grow. This is a normal part of their development and needed for learning and maturing. 

Now is the right time to become more informed about the challenges that may face your child/teen related to alcohol and how you can support their success and healthy decision-making.