June 7, 2010
Runaway Teens
Over a million teenagers run away from home each year, some are running from intolerable situations such as physical or sexual abuse. When a youth runs away, it will have an impact in the community. It would cause speculations regarding the reason why the teenager runs away that will greatly affect the parents.
Majority of teenagers runaway because of family resistance over such issues as curfew, truancy from school, behavior, dress code, academic performance, and over the choice of friends of teens . Children also may opt to run away from problems they are afraid to face such as being bullied or harassed from school that would cause nightmares lead to night sweat, pregnancy, sexual orientation or alcohol and drug problems. Some of them also would rather choose life on the street than to continue living in a seriously abusive environment at home.
When teens are out in the street they are no longer under the good influence of their parents. They become vulnerable to a lot of danger that is lurking without their knowledge. They will encounter and immerse with people who have questionable morals that might influence or drag them to the dark pit.
It is important that to prevent teens from running away from home, parents should discuss and resolve issues if they sense that their children is spending less and less time at home.
Here are tips for parents to avoid their children from running away:
Spend quality time with your children
Make sure to eat together during dinner, watch a DVD movie or help them with assignments. This is a great opportunity to talk about events that happened that day. Use the time to talk and know the activities of your kids that day and ask about problems that you can help solve and not to confront them.
Support your teens in their endeavors
Encourage and support them in their dreams or goals in life. Give them guidance by giving your opinion but respect their decision if they choose otherwise.
Be a formidable booster
Boost their confidence by acknowledging good deeds and works they have done. Remember that their confidence is first build at home.
Plan some fun and laugh together
Treat them to activities that you can do together like going to themed park, watch a concert and invite their friends or enroll them to any sports like tennis, badminton or swimming. Show them that you can still have fun even if you’re in the stage of menopause.
Respect them as individual
Give them a little privacy, freedom and allow them to be responsible by slowly treating them like a growing adult.
Things don’t have to be complicated with our teenage children, learning to understand their world and generation especially that we had gone through the same stage, will make us guide them in the right way.
Filed under Blog by admin




