In today’s world it’s unrealistic to have one parent home all the time, and there are lots of single parents that are working when their kids get out of school.
No child likes to feel like they are being watched, and certainly do not want restrictions on their leisure time. Your kids will resist and will almost certainly try to circumvent your will on the subject.
We’ve given you a few options on how to parent when you can’t physically be there. None of these methods are completely foolproof, and are certainly not a substitution for good parenting.
At first, this can be seem like a fight and a stuggle for power. But tweens and teenagers are going to fight with you anyway. Not giving in and setting limits is being a good parent. Letting kids do whatever the hell they want puts them on the short path to being entitled self-serving brats with smartphones and poor spelling.
