If you're a teen and you've been with a pretty young kid, you probably don't know that they're a little bit more playful than younger children.

The one who has the most to prove is 8, who is a slightly more playful 8, for example.

The fact is that the more playful a child is, the more likely it is to grow up to be obnoxious. It helps to think of it as a survival mechanism, like the fight-or-flight response. When kids get nervous, they tend to become more playful. That’s one reason why, if you’re having a fight with your 15-year-old child, you could spend a lot of time watching them play.

When I was a kid, sometimes I would feel like a kid when I was playing with my younger brother.

I remember when I was 8, I wanted to kick a ball so bad. I remember my brother saying, “I’ve never seen you play much,” and that seemed to make me feel better.

When kids get nervous, they tend to become more playful. It's not uncommon for them to get into a fight with their parents, and that's a very common reaction.

One of the most common things I hear from parents is that they feel like they have to be “the grown-up” and always be on top of things. It may be so, but I think they just don’t want to admit it. They want to be the “cool parent” and still be the responsible parent. I have a daughter who is 17, and she’s always trying to “be a grown-up”.

That is not true. Even in middle school, I was the cool parent. I always had a lot of fun with her and her friends. I was the responsible parent, too, but I was the one who always did what was expected.

The problem is that kids want to be cool parents, but they also want to be responsible parents. In the end, their own choices get in the way. How much we want to be like our parents, or like our friends, or the cool parent, or the responsible parent, is up to us. To some people, that might sound like an unreasonable expectation, but it just isn’t. The way we choose to raise our kid's matters.

Many of you probably know that it's hard to find a parent who can teach you best, and that's OK.

But if you're lucky enough to be one of those lucky ones, you might learn a lot. We're not the only ones who find this hard to learn. If you're lucky enough to be a good parent, you might learn something that's worth doing for you.

You don't have to be a parent to learn this, but there are a number of tricks you can use to get through to your own kids, so try them out.

The first trick is to give them a good game.

It is all about incentives. You want your children to want to learn to play games, not just play games. If you give them a good game, they will want to learn more and more. The second trick is to get them to think about the lessons you're trying to teach. It's all about incentives. You want your children to want to learn to think for themselves, not just to obey.