Why Should Parents Refrain from Finding Fault with Their Teenagers

Multiple Choice

Why should parents refrain from finding fault with their teenagers in public?

A) Teens already tend to believe that they are the focus of everyone else's attention and concern, so critical remarks in public can be mortifying.
B) Parents tend to judge teen behavior incorrectly, so they run a higher risk of being critical without a legitimate reason.
C) The best way to ride out the storminess of adolescence is to appease teens as much as possible; being critical will only create more problems.
D) Recent research has found that adolescents who suffer such public criticism engage in higher levels of delinquency than their peers.