Your Teens Friends At Your House

As a parent, it is important that you get to know your child’s friends and that you show your child that their friends are welcome into your home (assuming you approve of these friends of course). However, you should not feel like you need to open up your house like it is a clubhouse where your teen’s friends hang out all the time. Often times parents are guilted by their teens into allowing their friends over all the time. As the parent, you should clearly set some parameters around this to make sure that your family has private (more peaceful!) time and that your teen’s friends do not just show up anytime they feel like it. Establish a process by which your teenager needs to ask for permission (preferably not when their friends are standing at your front door) ahead of time, set some limits around sleepovers, time you expect friends to leave, rides, etc. Having these guidelines and enforcing them consistently will reduce arguing and will allow you to manage when you have company instead of having your teenager manage this.

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