ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to guide professionals who work with parents, on the various levels and domains of vigilant care. Since vigilant care is intuitive, and therefore easier, with smaller children, it focuses mostly on children of school age and upwards, with a special emphasis on the years of adolescence, in which the parents' difficulties and dilemmas, as well as the dangers for the child, grow apace. The chapter discusses the difficult points in the transitions, so that parents may prepare themselves, build up courage and gain a clear legitimization for their steps. It provides special attention to the parents' understandable fears that tightening their vigilant care might lead to escalation, arouse sharp reactions and damage their relationship with the child. The chapter also focuses on specific areas of vigilant care, such as lying, bad company, computer abuse and life-endangering habits.
