Teen Crisis Intervention a New Invention
Do you ever want to shout “Amen!” after reading an article that “nails” an issue perfectly? Well, at least according to your view on the topic. Yet I think few parents of teenagers would disagree that the constant hue and cry for teen crisis intervention is just not quite right. The Boomer generation especially has an understanding that teen age life is not supposed to be this never ending series of drama and angst.
Granted, crime is worse, threats are everywhere and the relative innocence of the last century has shuffled off the stage. But why? Why have we come to need a designation such as “predatory teen”? How did the “troubled teenager” come to be accepted as a norm?
The only predators that generations past had to deal with walked on four legs, excepting the occasional bi-ped miscreant whom society punished immediately, and, I might add, without anguishing if a childhood trauma “made him do it”.
Schools for troubled teens? Teens “back then” didn’t have the luxury of being troubled and the occasional teen who turned to the dark side saw the inside of a “reform school” the likes of which would curl you hair. The ACLU would be apoplectic.
What in the world happened? The following author, excerpted below, nails it, and to him one could say a hearty, amen!.
Relevant Tags:childhood trauma, crisis intervention, predators, schools for troubled teens, soap opera, teen crisis intervention, teenagers, teen crisis, troubled teenager“…the crucial difference between teens then and now, here and there, is not physiology, but parents who give a lot and expect relatively little, a media that encourages the young to view life as a never-ending soap opera, and a pop culture that enables teen irresponsibility. In the latter are included “experts” who tell us that we really have no right to expect mature behavior from teenagers.
Our children deserve more than this. Don’t they?”
