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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What purpose does taking the door off serve other than win the power play and display your dominance?  I don't get it.  And then you have a doorless room.

I get this is disrespectful but how will waiting an hour make any difference.  Kids this age are disrespectful.  Demanding perfect respect -- if you had that then why would you need to have this talk in the first place.

Taking the door off creates a secondary, huge, enormous issue which is going to dwarf the issue you came to talk about in the first place.  How could you sit down to talk about, I don't know, a messy room, sneaking out of the house, when your parent had just basically gone on a temper tantrum of their own, completely invaded your privacy, and ruined any trust between you?[/quote]

They’ll quickly get over the “huge, enormous issue” and realize any “power play” is all in their mind as you, the parent, a[b]re the one in charge, period.[/b] [/quote]

For now teen in question is 17 my guess is soon to be 18 don't fool yourself into thinking they'll happily stick around just because you pay for everything.
You really don't want to parent by powerplays. You always lose in the end.[/quote]

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