How can you discipline a teenager?

Philippines
February 1, 2007 6:57am CST
I have a daughter about 15 years of age, I may say she is not that wild yet but then almost every night she goes out with her boyfriend to watch basketball because her boyfriend is a basketball player and they seldom ask permission from me whenever they go out. I do not know what to do with her. What am I suppose to do? I do not know how to handle it. Please make some comments. Your advice will be appreciated.
2 responses
@bowtieguy (5915)
• United States
27 Aug 07
I try to treat my sons like adult and in return the have assumed adult like responsabilitiesl, cleand and yard work ect. In retur when they make bad choices or un adult like actions they are then treated a bit diffrently and lose certian prevliges, this inturn places a feeling of shame on them and that feeling usualy stears them clear of any wrong dicision that may face them in the future.
@camille101 (1025)
• United Arab Emirates
1 Feb 07
You and your spouse should hold up your grounds as a parent. And let her know what it is to be a responsible kid and teenager. If you will let her go like this unattended, you'll just know that she's already pregant or something. Here in arab countries and some asian countries, we don't let our daughters go out in the street or anywhere, except in schools where she is send by a parent or with her siblings until she gets married. No boy or men will see her unfully covered, meaning she is modestly dressed, with hair covered too. Our schools teach them virtues and morals to behave themselves in a proper way, and that people will look at them with respect. We discipline our daughters to respect and ask permission, whatever she may want to do, but never she'll go out of the house without her parents. A boy who wishes to marry her will come to the house with his parents and respectfully asks for the hand of the girl from her parents. I believed that this was your old tradition too in the past, but somehow society had changed it and the government had supported it. Now, you parents are the one whose suffering in rearing your children.