{"id":2149,"date":"2021-05-19T21:46:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T21:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/s37407.p1377.sites.pressdns.com\/resources\/sitting-for-teenagers\/"},"modified":"2021-05-19T21:46:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T21:46:55","slug":"sitting-for-teenagers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/sitting-for-teenagers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitting for Teenagers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Teens want to see a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.care.com\/babysitter\">babysitter<\/a> even less than they want to see their parents. Most think they&rsquo;re perfectly fine on their own &mdash; even if they&rsquo;re not. <\/p><p> Many teens are mad at the world, and as a third (or fourth, or fifth) authority figure in a teen&rsquo;s life, you&rsquo;re an easy target for his outbursts. <\/p><h2>Back off, but be reachable<\/h2><p> You&rsquo;ll control teens best by not trying too hard to control them. If they don&rsquo;t want your company, settle in a few rooms away. Stay alert, even if you want them to think you&rsquo;re engrossed in a book or TV show. <\/p><ul><li> When you first arrive, ask a teen if he wants to do anything. If he says no, politely tell him you&rsquo;re there if he needs anything. If you&rsquo;ll be bringing him to sports practice or an appointment, remind him of the time of your engagement, and ask him to be ready to leave at a specific time. <\/li><li> On a school night, offer to <a href=\"\/-p1017-qxid%7C04121535.html\">help with his homework<\/a>. If he says no, let him know you&rsquo;re an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.care.com\/math-tutor\">ace at math<\/a> or that Latin was your favorite class, and remind him where you&rsquo;ll be, should he change his mind. <\/li><li> On weekends, assuming you&rsquo;re allowed to go on outings, take a trip to the video store. Let him pick out the movie, as long as it&rsquo;s age-appropriate. <\/li><li> Should you be worried he might try to sneak out, don&rsquo;t make a big show of securing the fort. Do stay awake and alert at all times. <\/li><li> If you know what his <a href=\"\/-p1017-qxid%7C0810281350.html\">favorite activities<\/a> are, ask to join in. Challenge him to a few rounds of video games, or offer to make popcorn so you can both enjoy a scary movie. <\/li><\/ul><h2 class=\"bottomLine\">The bottom line<\/h2><p> You can only get as close as a teen will let you. Tell him you&rsquo;re there for him, then wait for him to come to you. If you try too hard to hang with him or control him, he&rsquo;s only going to push you further away. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teens want to see a babysitter even less than they want to see their parents. Most think they&#8217;re perfectly fine on their own &#8212; even if they&#8217;re not. Many teens are mad at the world, and as a third (or fourth, or fifth) authority figure in a teen&#8217;s life, you&#8217;re an easy target for his <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/sitting-for-teenagers\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":975,"featured_media":12241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"enable_toc":false,"care_reviewed_by":0,"care_post_updated_flag":false,"care_updated_date":"","last_update":"2021-05-19","view_count":2876,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"member-type":[5],"vertical":[6,17,16],"platform":[2],"class_list":["post-2149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","member-type-provider","vertical-children","vertical-child-care-advice","vertical-child-care-options","platform-resources"],"acf":[],"created":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/975"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"member-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member-type?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"platform","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/platform?post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}