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Mom21
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Posted: June 19 2014 at 11:49am \| IP Logged

My DS turned 13 about a month ago. Since we now have a teenager "in the house" please share your best advice for raising a teenager! No major concerns (yet), just wanting the advice of you wise ladies! Thanks!!

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Posted: June 19 2014 at 1:14pm \| IP Logged

Pray for him every day!

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Posted: June 19 2014 at 1:40pm \| IP Logged

And back off.. let Dad do most of the correction and instruction (I'm not talking about math here.. but in behavior). Oh and give "man-jobs" as chores as much as possible. They really step up to it. Especially, if you can ask them to do things that would be more difficult for you to do and so.. you don't do them anymore now that you have a "man-boy".

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Posted: June 19 2014 at 1:56pm \| IP Logged

I receive weekly newsletters from Parenting Today's Teens. It's full of good reminders for me. The articles on that site are also excellent.

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Posted: July 09 2014 at 8:02pm \| IP Logged

pray the 3 hail marys for his purity and holiness in the morning and night.

Keep him busy, teach him to work with his hands.

St Augustine said that for every one demon who is waiting to tempt a busy man there is a whole leigon of devils ready to tempt an idle man.

there are some great sermons on Audio Sancto on purity, I think young men need to start hearing holy straight forward men preach on this at the beginning of their teen years.

Teach him that someday he will need to sacrafice himself and his will for a family..teach him this starting today.

(sorry for the spelling errors, I am on my mac with out the mouse and cant correct my bad spelling!)

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Posted: July 09 2014 at 9:43pm \| IP Logged

Hug him...a lot.

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