18-Year-Old Parenting Tools

Mental health is a crucial part of every teen's overall well-being. As teens transition into young adulthood, they face complex emotional challenges that can affect their mental health. Much like physical health, mental health needs care and attention, making it essential to provide teens with the tools to build resilience and maintain emotional well-being. Teens between the ages of 15 and 19 are...

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

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 homework routine provides a terrific 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...

Eighteen-year-olds require the ability to follow directions to succeed at home, school, and their job. 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 several...

Trust is an essential foundation for every healthy relationship. As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an essential role in your eighteen-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 m...

As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play a crucial 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 emotional...

Anger Now Is the Right Time! As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play a valuable 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 terrific opportunity.  Teens and emerging adults ages 15-19 still learn about their strong and changing feelings. They may not fully understand the...

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; including them in daily chores provides an excellent opportunity.  Chores allow your teen to play a role in contributing to the maintenance and care of your family’s household. Teens and emerging you...

Technology Use Now Is the Right Time! As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play a crucial 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: ● &nb...

Back Talk  Now Is the Right Time! As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play a crucial role in your teen’s success. There are intentional ways to grow a healthy parent-teen relationship, and growing your teen’s skills to respectfully communicate provides a perfect opportunity.  Conflict happens in families -- between spouses, among siblings, and between parents and teens. Argui...

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

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

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 necessary 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 te...

Now is the right time to become more aware of the challenges regarding cannabis that may face your teen and how you can support their healthy decision-making and success. 

Eighteen-year-olds understand what it means to act responsibly. They are:  ● working to understand and apply the rules in numerous settings.  ● working to gain their independence.  ● increasingly invested in caring for their bodies (eating right, exercising).  ● caring for and growing their relationships (managing their feelings and impulses, empathizing and working through con...

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 deal with risk.

Now is the right time to become more fully aware of your teen's challenges regarding alcohol and how you can equip them for success.

Teens will not only be observing and contemplating differences in the world, they may be intentionally seeking more diversity as they journey into 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 openly talking to them about what they see and creating a safe, trusting sp...

As a parent or those in a parenting role, you play a critical role in your teen’s 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.

As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play an important role in your teen’s success and growth. There are intentional ways to nurture a healthy parent-teen relationship, and daily routines provide a great opportunity. 

Teens and adults alike feel stress. Stress is usually caused by an external trigger like an angry brother or sister yelling, “ You can’t wear my new sweatshirt !” or a parent or those in a parenting role insisting a teen come home from a friend’s house to work on a science project they have been avoiding. Feelings of stress are built-in mechanisms for human survival and safety. These feelings are...

As a parent or someone in a parenting role, you play a vital 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.

As a parent or those in a parenting role, you play an important part in helping your teen develop empathy. Empathy is the way people effectively relate to one another. It’s the ability to perceive what other people are feeling, understand that information, and respond in a compassionate way. There are intentional ways to develop a healthy parent-teen relationship while growing your teen’...

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

Teens ages 15-19 are actively engaged in seeking ways to assert their independence with confidence but may also feel vulnerable and insecure about their future adult lives. Teens 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 desire for increasing independence, their need fo...