As a parent of 2 children in their 20's , I suggest that parents take time to teach their children even if they are going to a public or private school. What should you teach them? Morality, Ethics and Personal Conduct. Successful living means that citizens should conduct themselves properly in business, school, church, and at play, etc. Yes, your children may be taught moral principals in school but most of all they learn from their parents' behaviour.

hi dasa! i think this question is reallly serious! today`s youth is not going on right road! or they are not goin on the way where they should go! i think just being strict is not solution! it needs a perfect scientific study of teenage mind and needs to be taken some certain steps!

well yeah you should be stricter .. but in the other way .. rather than practice "love, nurture, harmony.." and other hardly perceivable things you should plainly deprive them of any money, if they want to drink beer, use mobile phone, get out with friends on parties and so on, they have to earn you trust or earn money themselves, that'll teach 'em not waste their time and in general 'd be helpful for youngsters to understarnd commodity-money relations ..)

Yea, right. It's so easy to say : Well, they are awful. They only do that and that. But have you ever thought about why are they doing it? They dont need discipline. They need love and attention. Most of the parrents have no time for their kids. They go to work, come back really tired and the last thing that's on their mind is their kids. And sometimes teenegers need someone to ask: Hey, how was your day? I pretty much agree with learner and Cherry. :)

The best way of disciplining children or teenagres is to provide them with understanding and care instead of being very strict with them. Although they often revolt againt parental discipline, they need somebody to support them, and they need somebody who will listen. They hate being neglected. They also hate being obliged to do things they don't like. That's why you should provide them with love and nurture, protect them without being overprotective, play with them because a family that plays together stays together and set an example to them.