Stop Over-Parenting Teens: Raise Confident, Independent Young Adults

The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi · Jan 20, 2026 · 39m

You fix the problem before they feel it. You make the call they should be making themselves. You lie awake worrying about a situation they have already forgotten. And somewhere in all of that protecting and rescuing you have been quietly teaching your teen that you do not believe they can handle their own life. Randi Crawford has spent her career working with the parents who love their kids the most and are accidentally doing the most damage — not through neglect but through over-involvement that looks like good parenting from the outside and feels like exhaustion from the inside. What she…