15-Year-Old Parenting Tools

Mental health is essential to every teen's well-being. Fifteen-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 ages of 15 and 19 a...

Trust is an essential foundation for healthy relationships. As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your fifteen-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 ti...

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 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...

As a parent or someone in a parenting role, your influence is pivotal in your teen’s success. There are intentional ways to foster 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 fifteen-year-old’s learning and development. With you...

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 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 lea...

Fifteen-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 enough, listening and engaging in several steps given in an instruction necessitate...

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 a perfect opportunity.  Teens and emerging adults ages 15-19 still learn about their strong and changing feelings. They may not fully understand the...

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 developing your teen’s skills to communicate respectfully provides a perfect opportunity.   Conflict happens in families -- between spouses, among siblings, and between parents and...

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 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 yo...

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 perfect opportunity.    You can be purposeful and deliberate about responding when you feel your teen has shown disrespect through words or ac...

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 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: ● ...

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 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 tee...

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 excellent opportunity.  Your support in growing the skill of repairing harm can help your teen develop social awareness -- “the ability to understand t...

Fifteen-year-olds are working on understanding what it means to behave responsibly. They are:  ● working to understand the rules and apply them across various settings.  ● working on their independence.  ● increasingly taking care of their bodies (eating right, getting exercise).  ● caring for their relationships (managing their feelings and impulses, empathizing and...

Teens will make note of differences in the world.  They may also directly seek more diversity in their lives as they contemplate life after high school, whether that involves college or the work world. 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 observe and creating a safe, trusting space to disc...

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

Now is the right time to become more fully informed about the challenges your teen may face about alcohol and how you can position them for success. 

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 helping your teen learn how to manage peer pressure provides a timely opportunity.

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 daily routines provide a perfect opportunity. 

Now is the right time to become more informed about the challenges regarding cannabis that may face your teen and how you can position them for success. 

Teens and adults alike experience stress. Stress is typically caused by an external trigger like an angry sibling shouting, “You can’t have my game!” or a parent or those in a parenting role insisting a teen needs to stop talking on the phone and do their chores. Feelings of stress are naturally built-in mechanisms for human survival and thriving. These feelings are the body’s way of warning you w...

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

As a parent or those 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 creating rules about alcohol helps establish the supportive conditions necessary for your teen to deal with risk.

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 creating rules about cannabis helps establish the supportive conditions necessary for your teen to deal with risk.

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