Your kid’s rebellious behaviour

Teenage rebellion has been around for hundreds of years, in fact, in a paper written by Dr. Scott J. Larson, president of the Massachusetts based juvenile program Straight Ahead Ministries, and he cites an interesting quote from Socrates. The quote referred to youth as having bad manners and no regard for the elderly, a contempt for authority who tyrannized their teachers and contradicted their mothers and fathers. Teenagers can rebel in many different ways, active and passive. Teenagers can blatantly disrespect their parents by outwardly behaving in an unacceptable way or by passively ignoring the standards of acceptable behaviour that their parents have set for them. Teenagers may rebel against their parent’s rules, religious beliefs or moral code. Teenagers may also rebel against others in authority such as teachers, principals and even law enforcement officials. They may choose to show disrespect for these individuals and for their rules.

According to psychologist Erik Erickson teenage rebellion is a normal stage of development, as a child begins to really explore who they are they test boundaries, take risks and experiment with behaviour. As children grow, their need for independence and self-sufficiency grows, also. When it comes to teenage rebellion, it’s an area where you need to pick your battles as a parent.

 In today’s world parents are too busy working and trying to make provisions for the household that they forget to have time to pay attention to the needs of their teenagers, do not forget these teenagers are also humans and as well young adults. And without any responsible guidance can turn out to be something else in the future.

Since there is the tendency for your teenager to rebel, you could allow them to rebel in areas that you can handle not in areas that would pose as a very difficult situation for you to handle. When you have your teenager rebelling against the rule against drugs then you have to sit up and do an all round assessment of the kind of friends he or she keeps. There is this adage that says ‘show me your friends and I will tell you who you are’. The kind of friends your kids keep goes a long way in telling the kind of individuals they will be in future.

Your teen needs to learn how to make good decisions, and sometimes that can mean learning from the natural consequences that stem from rebellion. So when a kid tries to prove too stubborn do not be disturbed for what goes around will surely comes around. Again try to curb to the negative friends that come around your kids. This way you can put a stop to this negative rebellious behaviour that could endanger the lives of these kids.