“My son is 16, but often acts like a middle schooler. Is it appropriate to have some ‘middle school level’ interventions, like a schedule for playing video games and requiring that he show his homework before he can play them?' ryanwexelblatt
: “Even though my son is 16, he often acts and makes decisions like a middle schooler. Some of these issues have their own natural consequence, like getting a zero on an assignment. But, I can see that he might get a zero because he has difficulty seeing how his poor planning in the moment will effect him down the road. His self sabotage has much higher stakes as he gets older.
Is it appropriate to have some ‘middle school level’ interventions, like a schedule for playing video games and requiring that he show his homework before he can play them, as well as benchmarks such as ‘After you have studied with a tutor and alone for all midterms and taken all midterms, we can schedule your driver’s permit’? He feels babied and I am left unsure if I am intervening too much by trying to train good school behavior…”: “You’re right that your son’s chronological age is not...
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