You may feel that your young person is not ready to take on the responsibility for making her own decisions, but trying to control teenagers is often the way to make them rebel.
What you can do
You can't control or change your child, but you can control and change the way you react and this will affect the way they react. In other words you can choose how you behave and respond and this will affect the way they behave and respond.
Parents need to have expectations for standards of behaviour and they need to set guidelines.
It is helpful if family rules are clear, discussed and negotiated with te