Troubled Teens Resources

As I was a reading a success story about a troubled teen, there was a phrase that jumped out. It was, “go after jobs (you want), not just that ones that are advertising in the paper”. Wow, that is excellent advice for anyone, not just troubled teens. It goes right along side of the expression “life is what you make it, so go for it!”.(I don’t remember who I heard that from).  All too often we limit ourselves or forget to think outside the box. We’re all guilty of it at some points in our lives.

A large part of a child and teens learning come from not only personal experiences, but the observations and examples of adults, mainly authority figures in their lives (ie. parents, professionals, etc). If they see us grownups limiting ourselves, they will learn the same.

Teenagers need to be encouraged to find their interests and goals, then pointed in the right direction how to get there.  In an article I read, one troubled teen who was reflecting back, made the comment, “I had no goals, no structure, no motivation. I didn’t think there was anything I could do. I didn’t know what was out there. I got bored and got into trouble. Now a world of opportunities has been opened up to me and I can’t believe I didn’t know about this before.”

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