How to help your teenager with staying home during lockdown - and transitioning out of lockdown

As restrictions ease across the UAE, there are still many people who are not fully comfortable returning to life as we knew it before the lockdowns. It can be hard though to try to explain why to your teen or to help them understand the importance of caution.

This is an interesting article with some great tips to help transition out of lockdown.

If you’re struggling to keep your teenager in the house and sticking to lockdown rules, know that you’re definitely not alone.
Teenage brains work differently than adult brains. Developing independence and freedom is one of the central parts of being a teenager, and at the same time they’re also relying on the impulse areas of their brains rather than the decision-making areas of their brains. Combined, that means they are much more focussed on living for today, having fun, testing boundaries and exploring their identity then they are following rules. It’s completely normal that they focus on these things, and begins to explain why they might find lockdown so hard.

https://www.barnardos.org.uk/blog/how-help-your-teenager-staying-home-during-lockdown