The Psychology of Parenting Teens

There will come a time when your child, so cute, so nice, so charming, becomes a beast that you barely recognize. They will start sneaking out of the house, sampling beer and cigarettes and pushing their parent's buttons to see just how much they can get away with. For those of you moms and dads who don't have a child like this, thank your lucky stars. For the rest of us who do, welcome to the wild, wild world of parenting a teen. Here at Expert Village, we sympathize and may just be able to offer some advice that will help make the young monster a bit more manageable.

In this series of parenting videos from our professional counselor and life coach, you will learn sound advice for raising your teenage child. Jason Wittman has worked with numerous teenagers and their parents to make life more manageable from both ends of the spectrum. Watch these short film clips to gain his insight into the psychology of parenting teens. Are guilt tactics the best way to promote good behavior? Can too much praise be harmful? How can you reconcile your ideals with the reality of raising a young adult in this day and age? Our expert has faced these questions many times and now he shares his solutions, including his parenting manifesto and “the two musts of parenting teenagers.” If you have read this far, you can't afford not to watch these videos...

"Hi, I'm Jason Wittman. I'm here on behalf of Expert Village, and today I'm going to be showing you and discussing some real world ways that you can work with your older teenagers and young adult kids. My background includes a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology from Cornell University, being an NLP practitioner, and hypnotherapist. And I've been running youth programs and drug rehab programs for about the last thirty five years."