Sarah Ockwell-Smith, the parenting expert and author of How to Raise a Teen, Because I Said So and How to Be a Calm Parent, has written a piece on why “authoritative, rather than authoritarian, parenting is the way to go”.

In the article for GoodtoKnow, which you can read in full here, Sarah writes:

“The key to the most effective, healthiest, discipline in the teen years is a foundation of mutual respect, understanding, support and empathy. It is the opposite of harshness.”

How to Raise a Teen is out now. Grab it here or, better, via your local bookshop or Bookshop.org.

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