Adolescence being such a confusing stage of life what can we do to direct our young people aright.?

well struggling with idenity is normal. Erikson says it's one of the conflicts that teens must pass.

parents need to trust their kids and have good open relationships. if there is no trust than the kids won't look to them for help, advice, or as a role model. If kids can't come to their paretns when they did something wrong due to fear of punishment their problems only get worse as they have no one to help them sort the issue out and it snowballs out of control.

now the kids who shoot schools are responcible but it is more the school and the other kids who need the help. it's true we should teach are kids to be anti-violent. but it's more important to teach our kids not to bully and to get people to stop bullies before it escalates to the underdog pulling a gun. instead of targeting kids are picked on and are 'potential killers'- we should treat bullying as a serious issue!

anitsocial activities are inevitable. teens will do stupid and none beneficial things. the important thing is to reasure them, give them room to change/grow/make mistakes, and be there to help them if it seems like they are in trouble (even just asking how they feel and whats new, when they're acting differently than usual)

Some things you only get at home. And there are so many full, empty homes.

If we see kids in need, if we have enough extra activities, if we start requiring a school day that includes extras and mandates that kids stay in school until most parents are leaving work...

If we can show we care, through these programs and outside of them...

But then these lacklustre parents will accuse us of wanting to spend too much time with them, rather than giving them a sense of value as well as keeping them gainfully occupied...

Oh, and the taxes!

So we all strive for vacations and new cars that we'll never be able to pay for, and blame it on the kids' college expenses that we're so diligently saving for...

and kids shoot other kids.

Blame the kids.

It's always thier fault.

Yeah.

Bring them someplace safe, and give plenty of mentoring opportunities. And tell the parents that they're being taxed because they just can't handle life anymore.

My band director used to let us go out and roam around the halls. We would go over all of creation and then go to the bathroom and then head back to class. I think he would agree that most kids just need to get out of their seat and stretch their legs: get some blood flowing through their legs.

i imagine the formative years degree of life is critical reason it really is were we initiate to reveal into adult men or female & we initiate to mature. I understand the actual incontrovertible actuality that youngsters favor to mature, yet now to not right now reason they lose their formative years, there should be a stability of work & play.