Build character. Your goal is not just to get your teenager to obey orders but to help him develop a healthy conscience​—an internal sense of right and wrong. (See the box “Build Positive Traits.”)​—Bible principle: 1 Peter 3:16.

Suggestion: Look to the Bible for help. It is the best source of “discipline that gives insight,” and its wisdom can “give to the inexperienced ones shrewdness, to a young man [or woman] knowledge and thinking ability.”​—Proverbs 1:1-4.