Parents go through tough time nowadays, juggling with the pressure of work and with their parenting responsibilities. Both the parents are busy and have to work in order keep paying their bills. Then time flies so fast that you don't notice your child has grown up into a teenager. You now find that you have a problem at hand. You realize you can no longer control your teenager -- your teen out of control.

It is not the time to blame who is at fault but to find a solution for your teenager problem. You can either self help or seek professional help. It would be a good idea to start with self help and only as a last resort, you then seek professional help. Not all cases are serious enough to need professional help.

There are many ways of getting self help. You would probably have tried different methods from various sources like from books, online help site and from family or friends. Usually these are the recommended methods to help regain control over your teenager. Some of these methods are:

a) trying to reason with the teenager

b) taking away privileges

c) trying to be a tougher parent

d) trying to be a nicer parent

e) grounding

If the methods suggested do not help out, then you should consider an unconventional parenting strategy which has been proven to help when teen out of control. Do not expect your teenager behavior to be perfect using such method but it will be a whole lot better than it is now. Note that your out of control teenager will never work for what you want, but they will most likely work for what they want. If you need more information on this unconventional parenting strategy, check out our
Teen Out-Of-Control
guide.