Remember, be reasonable and be foreseeable in your house rules. Law enforcement is always asked this, especially when parents are dealing with teens. No one questions that a parent can hold on to and pick up his or her small child. When a child tries to run across the street, the parent, without question, can assume physical control. A parent's responsibility is the same, it is just the child's size that changes.
Many parents view their control as unchangeable from childhood through the teenage years.
Yet both the communications and the physical way we deal with our children must change as they get older. But parents can touch their teen. By this I mean that a parent can grab their teen to keep him or her from walking away or leaving the house. You can take your teen to their room or make them go to school. The typical spanking rarely works with an older child, and usually is not necessary.