1. Take time to share your vision for their life.

2. Elevate your child to perform at a higher responsible level by seeing them as responsible and capable.

3. Ask your child about their own expectations and their vision for their own life.

4.Talk about the consequences for making poor choices. You can give them examples of poor role models and how those choices ruined their life.

5. Talk about possible futures and what you jeopardize by using teen opinions as your only source of information.

– Gene Bedley