5 Ways to Assert Rules with Your Teen

When your child was younger, he or she routinely looked to you for answers or assistance, from learning to tie his shoes to help with homework. That made you feel needed and loved — popular with your own child. Then everything changed: You parent a teen now who is not keen on all your rules.

Adolescents naturally are or want to be more independent. They struggle to form their own identity and be self-governing. In different ways, most will push against parents’ rules — often wanting to take...