Five Star Safety - Safe Teens

Safe Teens

Safe Teens and the Parents Who Love Them

Raising teenage children is probably the most thankless job on the planet. Raising safe teens seems almost an oxymoron. They are caught somewhere between childhood and adulthood, but are too blinded by hormones to know where they are in life at any given moment. But behind all the image and smart- talk lies your little boy or girl and unfortunately, your job is far from over. Providing them with food and shelter, both of which they will only appreciate when they start having their own kids, is simply not enough. You've got to keep them on the straight and narrow, doing your best to make them into safe teens!

Don't Be Intimidated

Your teens will probably play a few different roles before they reach full-blown adulthood, and being safe teens will not be one that they will want to take on voluntarily. That's why you are the adult and will have to get the point across that whatever other image they are trying to obtain, they can be both--the fad of the moment and safe teens. You might remember when you were their age and tell a few stories that helped you learn a lesson or two and how much better off you would have been had you avoided getting into trouble in the first place. After all, we never would have advanced as a race had we all just blindly gone ahead in life making the same mistakes over and over again!

Lay Down the Law

You are not there to be your child's friend and should not always try to do this. It is inherent in parenthood that your kids will sometimes not agree with your decisions and, let's face it, they will hate you sometimes. But their kind of hate is fickle and fleeting and is not something to dwell upon. You are there to make safe teens out of these ruffians for the betterment of their future, because they are probably not thinking about that right now. When teens don't follow the rules, you must dish out punishments which you stand by, no matter how they try to convince you that you are wrong. They will respect you for it later and understand that you are only interested in child safety and raising safe teens.

And you thought all you had to worry about would be infant safety and baby safety! Ha! The trouble has only just begun and you have a whole new set of dangers to attempt to steer them away from!