Drill your teen on 5 ready scripts to use facing peer pressure, before the situation hits.

First diagnose: does the person lack an actual skill (competence), or have it but not trust using it (confidence)? The treatment is entirely different for each.

Make your emotional regulation visible and audible to your child — children learn regulation by watching, not by lecture.

Before any rule for your child, show him your own screen — children spot hypocrisy before they know the word for it.

Before asking your child to put their phone away at the table, put yours away first — modeling beats any spoken rule.