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Rules, understanding, compromise and flexibility can help parents guide teens through their school years.
28 JULY 2017
The role of the teacher in a student’s secondary school success has been thoroughly scrutinised in recent months, but of potentially greater influence is the impact of parenting style.
Parenting teenagers can be a challenging and fraught adventure, and as Andrew Martin, Scientia Professor and Professor of Educational Psychology at UNSW has found, striking a balance between setting boundaries and giving teens their independence is key to giving them the best opportunity for success.
Writing for The Conversation, Martin recommends an ‘Authoritative’ approach to parenting, comprising “clear boundaries, consequences, routines, structure, and expectations - and also a good deal of warmth and acceptance of the child.”
He goes on to emphasise the importance of knowing your child’s strengths and weaknesses, just as an effective teacher would, in order to know how to support them.
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