How to Really Love Your Teen

You should constantly be alert for opportunities to teach your teenager to make correct, accurate associations in thinking. A typical adolescent cannot think abstractly to a significant degree until he is at least fifteen years old, and then he is just learning. This is why a teenager is often sure parents are wrong or ignorant during early and middle adolescence; later, as the thought process matures and the teen becomes capable of abstract reasoning, he or she begins to understand parents and respect their opinions