Ten Decisive Steps to
Motivating your Delinquent Teen to Action
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STEP NINE
RE-EDUCATION
Re-education is exactly what it suggests, re-educating
our challenged teens with the desired information we would like them to
have. Some might think that
this is impossible as their personalities are already formed and they
are already highly influenced by what they have inculcated through the
various education media.
This is not an impossible task however as our teens are highly
impressionable. They can be re-educated with positive values and
attitudes.
In choosing to re-educate parents can network to do
this or they can change the atmosphere around their living environs.
EXAMPLES
·
Change the type of
general music that everyone listens to around the house if it is not
positive. This can be
introduced gently to the family by advocating an investigation of
different musical genres to see if they can be influence to change their
taste or for discussion at the table.
The move to reshape the level of influence of one’s musical
tastes can be a contest. It
can be proposed that there should be test to see if one will retain or
can change or add a new musical liking to their present ones by
listening to a set of new positive genre of music.
·
Change the type of
discussions that you have around the dinner table. Start taking about
national and social issues if you never used to do so.
·
Ask your teen to
read a column in a newspaper discussing an important subject and ask
their opinion of it. Do this
often.
·
Ask their opinions
of national issues.
·
Buy books that you’d
like them to read that are interesting and confront important social,
moral or national issues and ask them to give their opinions of it.
Let them know that their opinions are valued and appreciated.