Psychology

Growth and development is inevitable in human beings. Once a baby is born they grow for childhood to adulthood through the teenage stages of life.  Teens are those whose age range between 13 to 19 years.

When children reach adolescent stage, at the age of 12, they experience tremendous body changes coupled with different feelings full of discoveries (Selman Robert, 2000). The activity in the youthful stage makes them feel great, strong and can try anything they observe from grown ups.  They want to be associated with certain heroes, characters or they would like to be noticed. It is at this stage that they make choices that last in their adulthood.

Children at the teen years need to be guided through involvement in creative activities in which they are able to identify and develop their talents fully.  If their energies are not well utilized in creative activities like sports, athletics, health dances, drama activities and other types of performances these children end up making wrong choices (Western Drew, 2000).

Some of the wrong choices they engage in are drinking alcohol, smoking, premarital sex, involvement in hard drugs, theft and majority may even drop out of school if not well monitored.  Parents ought to know that these children need total guidance and little freedom to attempt things on their own.  They can be subjected to seminars, religious practices like being empowered in the churches or worship places as servants and organizers of events (Ponton Lynn, 1997).  When their minds are occupied in their interesting event they can sail through the teenage ages with little trouble.

In conclusion, parents should be keen enough to note any kind of deviance creeping in to the teenagers.  Some indicators of wrong choices would be dropping performance in school, forming peer clicks, social phobia and avoidance to meet their parents.