Vaping, overspending, screen time – how to teach your teenager self-control

An adolescent will make decisions based on emotion rather than rationale as their brain is still developing – but there are things we can do to help balance their thinking Whether it’s vaping, screen time or overspending, set your teen attainable goals to achieve and celebrate those milestones. Photo: Picture posed/Getty Teenagers can be notoriously impulsive. They frequently make mistakes due to poor impulse-control or bad decision-making that may not have considered all the consequences.

What do you do, however, when you have a teenager who can’t seem to exert any self-control?.