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Establishing and maintaining healthy relationships between parents and children is important and challenging at any age and stage in life. All children have behaviour problems, some being harder to accept than others. Some of these behaviours can cause children to be aggressive, hostile and difficult to handle, which may emphasize their respective limitations. As parents they are their children first and foremost teacher. Many Parents set up rules, and other boundaries in which their teens must follow. These rules are usually placed over their teens to control, protect, and teach their teen. Even though most parents mean well, and some rules are necessary it's easy to overwhelm teens with regulations. First of all teens are not going to follow all of the rules, and secondly there are some things that certain teens will not do with, or without a specific rule on that subject. For example, there are many teens that would never use drugs, but by placing a rule on this, the teen might not feel trust worthy, and might be more likely to try drugs. This is not always the case though, some teens need every rule stated, or they might test your patients. Parents should remember that they know their teenager best, and they need to set ru