These boundaries are more times than not appreciated by our youth. They often need boundaries to help let them know what is or is not going to be accepted. These boundaries never disappear, they just change. We as parents need to maintain boundaries and remind ourselves as well as our children that we bend, but will not break. Most problems with antisocial activities occur with the most important element often overlooked.
Time gives opportunity, time gives thought, time gives trouble.
Parents need to fill their portion of time when it comes to our youth. Time constraints only exist when we begin to think we have more of them. If anything, our involvement with our children and youth should be increased in particular situations. Our youth are faced today with so much more than when we were growing up. Society, expectations, the Internet, movies, TV, pressures to conform all face each child regularly.