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Essay on Teenagers in Group Homes
We are a society geared on entertainment. Kids today demand to be entertained at all times and we give it to them. Young kids have it all, video players, Play station 2s, CD's, DVD's and MP3's. We give them dance lessons, take them to Tae Kwon Do, and buy them anything they want. Unfortunately, by the time they are 12 they have no idea what reality is. They are never satisfied and always demanding more. We are compelled to buy them happiness. If we think it will make them happy we give it to them. We want our children to be happy so bad that we are willing to destroying them to make them happy. We are taking all the pain out of life, the kind of pain that we all need to go through in order to grow and mature.
To us, the troubled teen that we refer to throughout our web site is really an "entitled" kid from a good family, a kid who appreciates nothing, disrespects his/her parents, refuses to take responsibility for his/her actions, blames others for his/her own poor choices, academically unmotivated, but motivated to do anything to gain acceptance by his/her negative peer group. More specifically, today's troubled teen is a monster at home, often yelling and screaming at parents and defying parental authority at every turn, but a great kid outside of the home. Yes, outside of the home the troubled teen is polite, respectful, and looks and acts like a normal kid (Levine, 2002).
It is very difficult to be a parent of a child with bipolar. I have a six-year-old son who is diagnosed with ADHD. Doctors will not officially diagnosis a child this young with bipolar. With all the articles I have read and the medicine I have recommended to the doctors, I know he is bipolar. He is currently in a class for behavior disorder.....
