I wish I had a pound for every time I had been asked as a therapist and as a mother: "Linda how did you manage the teenage years" or "From a psychological point of view what advice would you give to parents raising teenagers?" There is not a parent that I know that has swum through the teenager years of their offspring without some difficulty; it is part of the course. However from my experience if these years are managed in a healthy way then the terrible teen years end between nineteen and twenty one. If however, they are managed in an unhealthy way then the challenging behaviours of our...