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When you think about it, one of our most important jobs as a parent is to make sure our kids are positioned to be the best adults they can possibly be. Teenagers, especially, need to learn to make responsible decisions about their asthma. Consider these tips to help your teen with asthma.

• Responsibility: It is important to increase your child's responsibility as they get older. You cannot be there forever or every minute of every day. By increasing your child's freedom and responsibility in their own self-care, they will hopefully learn to take better care of their own asthma. This freedom and responsibility, however, needs to be tempered by supervision and restrictions as well.
• Difficulty: Some teenagers find it difficult to accept their asthma diagnosis.This can make parental guidance and support both all that much more difficult and important.