I advise parents generally to allow their teens to have that room as their own space and simply close the door when you can’t stand it.
As they come into adolescence ... they begin to need to carve out a world that is private from you, and that is very scary, and it’s always been very scary, and it’s more scary today ... .
Children are exposed on the Internet to strange influences that they would not have been able to access in prior years ... .
So this is all dependent on your relationship with your child ... .
Are you somebody that they can come to to talk to when they realize they’re up against something ... or will they not talk to you because you’re going to freak out and moralize and lecture and punish?
Jean Walbridge, ACSW, LCSW
Parenting Adolescents
Psychotherapist, author, parent
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