Parents and teen

Conflict happens when two people disagree based on their own goals, values, or beliefs. Parents and teenagers inherently have many opportunities to have conflict. Adolescence is a time when independence and parental influence conflict. Conflict is in the simple as an argument. Conflict is what happened right before the argument. That's what two people disagreed about before they started calling each other names.

The ability for an adolescent to be able to think on his own and yet have parents who have rules and expectations sets the pair of for conflict. Teenagers don't necessarily hold the same beliefs and values as their parents, and their goal to have fun conflicts with parents’ goal to keep them safe. Curfew is a classic topic for parents and teenagers to argue about. It doesn't really matter what parents set the curfew, when kids don't show up when they're supposed to be home and makes parents worried. A worried parent becomes a scolding parent. So when the teen does come home, he gets an earful and a stiff punishment