As children enter adolescence, anticipate more distance and disagreement.

For most moms and dads, as their child begins the 10- to 12-year coming-of-age passage, the growing transformation we call adolescence (usually beginning around ages 9 to 13), parenting becomes more challenging. While the child was more content to live on parental terms, the adolescent wants to operate more on her or his independent annd individual own. So parents should consider these four common youthful changes in their relationship with their teenager to which, to some degree, they must adjust.