Summer. It means swimming, bike riding, walking for ice cream, and wandering the neighborhood to look for other kids playing outside. It’s meant all those things since my boys were tiny. This year, however, my 12-year-old threw us a curveball. He wants to do all those things on his own! He wants to sleep in, get up and go out …”wherever.” And, he’s been hatching these plans for months. Your Teen magazine asked me how we handle these
requests for kid independence.
How do you decide when to let your kids go and when to hold them back? It’s my own personal experience that the millions of things I worry about don’t actually happen when I let my kids try things on their own. But I still worry. Will you come over to Your Teen and weigh in?
