Schools for Troubled Teens Teach Accountability
Accredited and professionally staffed schools for troubled teens will have curriculum and behavioral programs that address a variety of teen problems. Two of the more important lessons driven home to these teenagers are accountability and consequences. Teens at risk who do not learn to own their mistakes and pay for them are destined to continue along the same destructive course.
These are lessons that used to be taught at home, and still are by responsible parents. A simple example follows. A mother has to pick up her son at 3:00 AM from a drinking party busted by cops. That is when she realized her normally “good kid” was flirting with danger.
Relevant Tags:accredited, behavioral programs, consequences, responsible parents, schools for troubled teens, teenagers, teen problems“The teen’s mother took immediate action, grounding him.
“I put him on restriction,” she said. “I took away his car and only let him use it for work.”
The woman said her son is a good student and had not been rebellious in the past, but her frustration is that “all you can do as a parent is teach your kids what’s right and hope your kids make the right decisions.
“It’s pretty hard (to stop them from drinking) unless you ostracize them from their friends, and you can’t really do that,” she said.
“As a parent, we just have to instruct (kids) that what they decide can negatively affect the rest of their lives,” she said. “You have to help them see the future beyond the next party.”
The woman said her son is now headed in the right direction — he’s going to college this fall.
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