Troubled Teens Resources

“Rather than demand obedience, Positive Peer Culture demands that young people become the mature and productive human beings they can be. Unfortunately, many adults do not really believe that young people possess the quality of “greatness,” which is perhaps not surprising since youth seldom are provided with opportunities to display their true human potentials. Positive Peer Culture is concerned with setting expectations high enough to challenge the young person to do all he is capable of doing. To expect less is to deprive him of the opportunity of feeling as positively about himself as possible.”
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“Unfortunately, many adults do not really believe that young people possess the quality of “greatness,” which is perhaps not surprising since youth seldom are provided with opportunities to display their true human potentials.”

Nothing is present day culture calls greatness from our youth. A teenager is instead summoned to greed, base sexuality, self-indulgence, anger and self-loathing.

What if someone, someway, could summon what was great in your teen, instead of what is callow and mean. A teenager will not put a needle in their arm or a pill in their mouth if they are made aware of and believe in their worth.

Positive Peer Culture is a program employed by Tipton Academy for Boys, a troubled teen boarding school that wants at-risk teens to come face to face with their greatness.