How to Help Your Teenager Choose a Career Without Choosing for Them
Parents often bring experience, practical constraints and knowledge of available routes. Teenagers bring their own preferences, abilities and pace. A useful conversation treats both as information, not as a contest over who decides.
What parents can usefully bring
Use questions, several options and real information so parents can support a teenager's career exploration without turning the choice into an instruction.
What the teenager should keep in the conversation
Use questions, several options and real information so parents can support a teenager's career exploration without turning the choice into an instruction.
A three-part conversation
Use questions, several options and real information so parents can support a teenager's career exploration without turning the choice into an instruction.
What not to do
Use questions, several options and real information so parents can support a teenager's career exploration without turning the choice into an instruction.
A next step you can finish this month
Use questions, several options and real information so parents can support a teenager's career exploration without turning the choice into an instruction.