"some [teenagers] are more concerned about what their peers think than what their parents think. Others are more concerned about their inflated self-concept tha

"some [teenagers] are more concerned about what their peers think than what their parents think. Others are more concerned about their inflated self-concept than about what their parents think. Kids need to value their parents’ opinion as their first scale of value, at least throughout childhood and adolescence." It turns out that this article is written by a parent, rather than by a teenager.