1Put the words into the text.
a) prevent b) criticizing c) confident d) tolerant e) privacy f) liberty g) conflicts h) prohibit i) resolved j) relationships
When children grow into their teens, they and their parents tend to become less happy with each other and quarrel more often. Then reasons for ____1_____ vary from the children’s poor progress at school up to their wrong choice of friends. Teenagers often complain that their parents _____2_____ them from going out at weekends and dictate how they should behave. Teenagers often rebel. They want to demonstrate how grown up and _____3_____ they are, which is usually far from what they really feel.

Psychologists think that it’s very difficult to _____4______ all the conflicts between parents and their teenage children. Children fight for their independence and ______5______, they may sometimes behave inappropriately. Teenagers are entering a new phase of their life and are often not able to cope with new emotions. Sometimes they want to be left alone so that they can process the new feelings and experience, and their _____6____ should be respected. Parents need to understand that their kids are still vulnerable when they are trying to cover their feelings with a false bravado. So, ____7_____ is not the best way to improve the situation. To avoid conflicts both sides have to be very _______8______ of each other. But if it happens, a conflict must be ______9______. Suppressed conflicts can affect _____10____ badly.