There are many kinds of teenagers in this world. There are those who are especially quiet and shy, those who talk a lot and like company, those who prefer to be with his/her usual friends, and those who are extrovert and like to mix around with new friends.
In the world today, we have teenagers who behave rowdily in public and resort to gangsterism/waywardness to solve their emotional problems. These are the teenagers who often end up committing crimes like shoplifting, robbery, sexual abuse and even drug abuse.
All the above-mentioned are crimes committed by these children as a result of peer influence that usually starts from school. Most of them (teenager) don’t see anything bad in what their peers are doing, as their level of thinking at this stage is usually low and they do not know they are on the wrong track except when being guided and counseled by teachers, parents, close relatives, caring adults or even the religious group they belong.
Most people, when they see or talk about these problem teenagers, they often feel that they are all bad people without proper education and feel that they are the inferior people of the country and thus do not like associating with them. However, most people have shown that they have a lack of emotional intelligence towards these problem teenagers, as they see no good thing in them, which sincerely, shouldn’t be addressed that way.
It is a very important to note that when a child is in the adolescent stage, it signifies a child’s growing up into an adult from an ignorant little kid. However, it is also the most dangerous period of time for any child. This is because if the child is not guided properly through his growing up days, he may be led astray by bad company to commit crimes of low degree like gangsterism, sexual abuse thereby leaving their live at stake to vulnerabilities.
As a child grows up to become a to-be adult, he/she starts having a mind of his/her own and makes his/her own sets of thinking. If this child is properly guided while he/she starts shaping his/her personal thoughts and beliefs, he/she will grow up to be a worthy citizen of our country. However, this is not always the case in all the teenagers. During a child’s teenage days, he/she will often face many personal problems but some teenagers will not reveal it to anybody except their closer friends. Due to this, if the parents of these teenagers do not do anything about it, like showing concern for the child and assuring him/her that it is okay to confide his/her problems with them, the child will instead turn to his/her friends. If his/her friends are those who are any other normal teenagers, it should be okay. However, these teenagers often prefer to stick with friends who face the same problem as them, that is, family problem that their parents do not bother about them and do not care about them.
These teenagers would often hang around with their so-called "good" friends. At the beginning, it seems all okay. However, when these group of friends are face with days of boredom, they will start thinking of wild ideas to have some fun. Their wild ideas, like vandalism (hooliganism, sexual destruction) and shoplifting, may seem perfectly alright and very fun to them, because they never tried anything like that before and may not be taught that these things are against the law.
As the days pass with them doing these "fun" stuff without getting caught, they begin to get bored of these as well. In this case, they start thinking up of even wilder ideas, for example, robbery or even extortion, prostitution. Some of these teenagers actually do these things without knowing that they are wrong. It is only when they get caught that they know it’s wrong, and when that happens; it is all too late already.
Though there are actually some teenagers who know they are committing crimes but they still continue doing it. The reason being that they have nothing to do and want a challenge and they believe that they will not get caught for committing crimes because they see themselves as grown and smart. Which becomes a part of them and they grow with it thereby leaving immoralities at the increase thereby exposing their lives to all vulnerabilities such as the popularly known HIV/AIDS and other Sexually Transmitted Diseases, which could be contacted mostly through sexual harassment and also unsafe use of sharp objects like knife, blade, needle and what have you.
In a nutshell, it is advisable for the elderly ones who are seen as the leaders to always lead right in speech and in behaviour to enable the teens emulate their good acts and listen to what they say.
So autograph yourself with excellence, for the LEADER leads and the YOUTH follow.
GUIDE/COUNSEL A TEEN TODAY AND MAKE A POSITIVE CHANGE IN THE WORLD.
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