Teens are sometimes more comfortable speaking with someone other than their parents. By informing him to this fact it could help him ease the feeling about speaking with me. If Adam does not understand why his parents have brought him to speak to me, I would clarify for him that his change in behavior including grades, change of friends and lack of respect for the rules are a big concern for his parents and they are just very worried something is going on that he is not comfortable speaking with them about. I would overlook the crying at first because mention of it may put him in a defensive mode. A couple relaxing non-defensive questions I would ask are what subjects in school he’s taking and what is his favorite subject.
J October 18, 2012 Minors Drinking Age Under age drinking is a major problem. Lowering the drinking age to 18 when with a parent or legal guardian could help this problem in many ways. Parents being able to educate minors watch over minors and limit them, and keep minors from getting in trouble with the law could help limit or stop under age drinking from being a problem. Letting minors drink with adult supervision could be a safe way to educate them about alcohol. First, parents should get to decide what there kids get to do while they are with them.
These stereotypes are what some people class teens into automatically without getting to know them and seeing what their capabilities are. This is very dangerous as if stereotypes are give then the person could see it as an excuse for his or her behavior. In reality a person could just be going through a hard time but in the eyes of others they are showing the characteristics of a particular stereotype. In the media today teens are portrayed in a negative manner for example in a lot of soaps like “Home & Away” there is a bad boy theme at times. This is shown through the introduction of the River Boys gang.
The goal of this article was to inform adults of the many different motivations of teen tattooing in order to reduce the assumptions many adults make. For example, the text explains that while adolescents view tattoos as “personal and beautifying statements”, parents associate tattoos with “oppositional and enraging affronts to their authority.” Martin explains that in most situations this is not the case, and if parents would just show interest and “nonjudgmental appreciation” towards teenager’s tattoos, they would be able to communicate and make contact with their tattooed teens. Martin is just trying to explain that if they view tattoos with an open mind, then maybe they can have a better understanding of why this is a growing epidemic within the teen community. The style and format in which Dr. Martin wrote really gives his reader a better understanding of the text. Martin’s utilization of all three persuasive appeals (logos, pathos, and ethos) is the reason for his arguments strength.
Like say you had parents that had a different view on birth control like most parents and went against it, the teenager might feel as if they were going against his/her parents and wouldn’t get what they needed. This goes along with being disowned by family because of your choice. If a teen has sex, don’t you think they should have access to the proper protection with or without parent consent? Teenagers don’t have that sense of comfort in talking to their parents about sex because some feel as if it’s awkward, weird or as if their parents will get mad or judge them. If your child wants to protect themselves whether it’s from getting pregnant or whatever it may be, why stop them.
It can be a time of looking forward to life’s possibilities without the cares of adulthood, and rewarding friendships. It can also be a time of alienation from friends and parents, and fearing the direction of one’s life. During early adolescence the maturation of the frontal lobe, responsible for judgment, impulse control, and planning lags behind the limbic system development. This inconsistency in development helps explain a teenager’s risky behaviors, emotional instability, and impulsiveness. These qualities are what put teenagers at risk not only online but offline as well.
For example, some parents have arguments or fights most of the time which cause stress for their children, and sometimes parents don’t give enough time to their children. Some parents even get divorced and live separately from each other, in this situation, teens don’t get the equal time, love and care they should have. Teenagers want to have a sense of belongingness which they don’t receive from their families, so they turn to their friends or even gang members. Another reason that teenagers join gangs is drug addiction. Teens’ minds are not developed enough to see the difference between enjoyment and physical damage, so that they use harmful drugs for fun.
When deciding to use tracking technology on your kids, it is best to consider the pros and cons of tracking them. First, controlling your children can cause to them many psychological and mental disorders. Parents, who control their children and do not allow them to make their own choices, can lead to children’s rebellious behavior. In particular, this is true for teenagers who should make some mistakes, take a risk and make their own decisions in order to develop, grow up and learn. If they are micro-managed, it can cause their anti-social personality development, parent-child relational problem disorders, depression and paranoid personality.
(Freud and daughter in Gross 1992). On the other hand a teenager could cut all parental ties and become more dependent on their friends, as their friends could be going through similar experiences and their parents may describe their behaviour as “just going through a stage”(Offer et al 1981, in Gross). However if an adolescent is going through a family crisis at the time of puberty for example, a divorce between their parents, then the pressure on the teenager will intensify. (Rutter et al 1976 in Gross). This may cause the teenager to become more independent as they may resent their parents, for getting divorced, and leave home.
Parent's have their influence on teens to a great extent and the result of this bad influence is alcoholic teens following the principle, like parents, like children.In recent years it's known that people who have/had alcoholic parents are more likely to develop the diorder themselves. Most teens try alcohol for the first time at home and that is where the parents can be held responsible. Instead of the parents influence their children to drink alcohol, they should talk and make it clear to their adolescents that drinking impairs coordination and decision making abilities. If more time was spent with adolescents by their parents and it wasn't any alcohol involved their would be less deaths and car