I think Dougwalkabout nailed it!!
The big thing I did with my daughters was to keep the lines of communication open. There was nothing they could tell me that I would overeact to. I never allowed them to see a shocked or angry face on me. Of course it helped that I had been a young hellion during my teenage years!
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