Posted By: nanna23 on 2006-10-13
In Reply to: Parenting advice needed! I am losing my mind with my 14yo son. SM - MissouriMT

I loved the follow along routine, did the same with mine and it does work! I agree with all the great advice here, but one thing I did that worked great was make his realize there are consequences for his choices...it kills them when you say calmly...I'll get back to you when I decide what your consequence will be! Just sit on it for a day..it does get the best behavior out of them :)

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