Thou shalt not commit, commitment!

So, we have just finished our first Surviving the Teen Years teleclass for parents.  Gladly, it was a resounding success and the next one begins on 12th April.  The parents were very complimentary and one of them commented that it had been 'life changing' for her and her teenager. So, all the hard work in planning and design has paid off - we know that it works!

So, my thoughts turn to another piece of work about how you inspire teenagers who feel that they have missed out on their upbringing.  The really intersting thing is that teenagers whose parents have not really bothered with them or worse, left them totally while they were children can absolutely tell you what has been missing from their parents. It's incredible how often people want to hide behind their life experience as a reason for not moving on.  So, we focus on how to get these young people beyond that at an early age.  But when all you know as a teenager is how to smoke cannabis and drink in order to escape the boredom of no work and a small town, what options are there?

 Belief and respect are big words for these young people.  They want respect, yet often don't know how to give it because when they did it has been abused  They have little real belief about their job prospects, but more importantly, these young people really need a great understanding of committment.  Committment is something that not many people have given them and so they are often unsure as to how to give commitment and the reasons why they should.  Couple that with the usual teenage growth, incorporating rebellion, the search for identity, changed body clocks and you have a recipe for a r!eally interesting and challenging development course.  Hmmmm!  More to follow