Seven Minutes Late: A Curfew Crash Course
When Autonomy-Supportive Parenting Theory Meets a Teenager on a Bike
A parent recently asked me at a speaking event how I handled curfew. I admitted my limited personal experience and brainstormed possible responses based on autonomy-supportive theory,1 not my real life.
Not even two months later, my oldest finished ninth grade and the initial days of summer freedom brought us into our first substantive contact with the cu…
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