Question
I am feeling a great sense of failure because I've been trying to apply John’s principles for most of my child's life and this is where we are:
• 16-year-old son is addicted to his phone and has not responded to any of my attempts to discipline.
• He is not engaged at home unless it's to grudgingly do his chores. When he does engage, it's disrespectful.
• His chores are often not done, incomplete, or done only to the minimal standard. Nothing more.
• He takes hard classes and is an average student - although he did just get his first D - probably because he's on his phone so
much???
• He doesn't drive, has no friends in the neighborhood, so he is not social after school, cares little about anything in his room, and has nothing I can take away except the phone.
The problem is this: he bought the phone and got his own phone plan with his own money from his own job.
I don't know how to apply ParentGuru principles to this situation.
