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The ultimate objective of teenage emotional extortion is to get parents to give in and/ or change their mind. Emotional extortion, according to Psychology Today is manipulation of parental authority through any combination of lying, pretense, and pressuring. Especially with parents, they have an uncanny ability to circumvent an undesirable answer and wear the parent down using creative, manipulative tactics. Most teenagers want everything to go their way all of the time. Teenagers will continue to use manipulation techniques as long as they continue to work. Playing the parents against each other: a teen that asks one parent a question and does not get the answer they want will then go to the other parent and ask the same question and/ or say the first parent approved as long as the second parent would allow it as wellĪlthough teen’s physical appearance begins to resemble an adult more than a young child, it is imperative to bear in mind that they are not yet adults, and will behave accordingly.throwing things, screaming, engaging in a heated argument, etc.) Explosive behavior: this is the teenage version of a temper tantrum (i.e.
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