Young Listeners: When Parents Fear Bad Associations…
Should parents interfere with friendships they deem bad for their children?
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By: Caroline Paré Follow
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Parents fear the negative influence that friends could have on their teenager.
We speak of "bad associations", when these have a harmful influence on the child.
For example, when they incite him to adopt dangerous or even illegal behavior and/or when they harm his relations with his family and those close to him or his regular attendance at studies.
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It is therefore normal for each parent to worry about their child and to want to talk to him about it.
But the subject is delicate since it affects the circle of friends, precious for all young people.
Should parents interfere in these friendships?
Where do these parental fears come from?
How to handle disagreements?
Who do you contact when this disagreement turns to conflict?
Dr Laelia Benoit
, child psychiatrist and researcher at
Yale University
, USA and
Inserm
, France.
Author of the book
The fragile adolescent, can we predict in psychiatry
?
, published by Research (2016) and
Phobie Scolaire, rediscovering the pleasure of growing and learning
(2020)
Hadja Idrissa Bah,
student, Member of the Board of
Equipop
, an NGO that acts for the rights and health of women and girls around the world, and of the Network of Young Feminists of French-speaking West Africa
At the end of the program, we find the sports chronicle of
Dr. Jean Marc Sène
, sports doctor.
► All chronicles are accessible
here
.
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