How do you keep teenagers at home?

away from trouble, the streets, drugs, and violence.


If you are a teenager, what would it take keep you at home and busy and happy?

 

i dont think there is any particular way. whatever you do, kids are gonna rebel.

 

keeping the drugs at home.

 

haaa for real

 

lol, only if you want to turn them into crack heads

 

There needs to be a balance between home and socializing. Seriously, I wouldn't keep my teenager cooped up in the house. A person needs to spread her wings... and get high.

And yeah, I would keep some drugs in the house just in case they wanted to get high with me for a change.

 

um...crack heads? only if you're giving them crack...

 

will you be my second mommy?

 

DO NOT lock em in... thats the worse thing you can do, when someone sheltered gets out, hell breaks loose.

NOTHING should keep a teen at home "busy and happy"... thats just not how it works. The goal is to grow into a responsible adult, the best way to do this is give the *true* information about (insert anything/everything here) and why.

"Don't do drugs" doesn't mean anything.

Explaining the side effects, legal aspects, life path aspects, group of friend aspects, and what the true cause and effect is works... given this strategy from the beginning its easier for the kid to listen... Most teens will piss and moan, but words do stick when the time comes.

Inform, don't shield... there is no responsibility in ignorance.

 

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I completely agree, cranky.

 

Sure!

 

This comes from personal experience of an unguided and locked in childhood, coupled with an awareness of others... even if I didn't interpret things properly at the time, it came together later. Coulda came together right there with proper guidance.

 

yayy! :hurray:

 

That's exactly how I feel, because I had a similar childhood.

 

Kudos for not continuing the nightmare for future generations

Gotta be somewhere between hippy and nun.

 

yeah, there's no real way to ensure all will go well. al lthe raising you're going to do is likely already done, anyway. they're gonna do what they want, and there's really no stopping them.

 

I totally agree.

Hopefully, because for most information goes through one ear and comes out the other. They tune you out.

Today's teenagers don't respond well to information. They rather listen to mindless rappers and buy useless things.

not to mention their short attention spans.

 

that reminds me, i have to go buy that new 50 cent album and some booty shorts to wear with my sheer pink belly shirt. then i can go smoke crack and get pregnant 'cause thats like totally what the cool girls do. what were you saying, again?

 

Cuz that's like, how all teenagers are! LOloL

 

there ya go.. nothin more to be said....