Successfully Raising Teenagers

Have any of you ever had a teenager slam a door in your house? If you want to get a reaction out of this bottom line, results-oriented guy, slam a door in my house.  Recently, I told my 16 year old daughter, “Your grounded this weekend.” She looked at me and said, “Fine,” goes up the stairs… bam, bam, bam, bam, takes her bedroom door and just slams it.  In fact, the windows in my house rattled. I charged up the stairs, charged down the hall, ripped open the door and said this, “Young lady, as long as you live in my house, don’t you ever slam the door again.”  I was so worked up that my hand got caught on the handle and, as I left, I slammed the door. As I’m coming down the stairs, my wife, Kathleen, says to me, “Has it ever occurred to you that you might not have the full skillset to parent a teenage girl?

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