Time is very artificial and absolutely real. We create and depend upon it to measure, organize, celebrate, and manage our daily experience of life. It’s a very large topic for a very small blog, but here goes.

Particularly during their child’s adolescence, parents need to weigh in to support the constant reckoning of time. They do so to encourage the young person to routinely ask her or himself three basic time-assessment questions about daily experience, each of which has safety value.

With increasing developmental change going on, it can be easy for adolescents to lose momentary track of all in life that matters. So parents should try to encourage them to maintain full-time awareness.

Filling life with demand and stimulation, adolescence is both exhausting and exciting. There is a growing demand for doing or action. Too much demand can create one kind of human problem: stress from too much to do. Too little demand can create another kind of human problem: boredom from too little to do. Sometimes adolescents vacillate between these two extremes, and it’s hard to maintain a comfortable mix of in-between.

A modification of that old equation for calculating physical speed—Rate = Distance/Time—can help with learning to manage time challenges. Only here we are talking about regulating one’s........

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