Creating a sense of home for that emerging teen

Kya de Longchamps suggests interior design tricks, a few set house rules and safe room designation could help with the eternal teen struggle — that difficult transition period from cute cub to acceptable, house-trained adult.

School age teenagers, for all their operatic bravado and elastic eye rolling, are often not ready to even take a test flight from the nest area, but they should be actively bobbing on a branch preparing to launch. Whether their home life and surroundings increases their competence to thrive alone is really down to you.

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