You know, guidance is what a teen needs, starting from at least the age of 12, before she tells you that she is old enough to make her own decisions. It’s every mother’s dream to see her child be something in life, even if it means choosing a career for her child, but that isn’t the right way to go. Let a child be free to choose her own career in life, even if she wants to be a DJ or a musician. I know that some parents don’t think of those choices as proper careers, but for your children it’s a calling, so let them spread their wings and fly. Even if you don’t agree with your child’s career choice, just try to be supportive.

Teach your child everything as soon as she or he is mature. Not when he or she is over 15. You must do it when your child is under 15. Children should be taught at home and at school. Teach them about what things to avoid in life, how to be respectful, how to have morals and how to know right from wrong. They should not admire the bad and hate the good, because that’s called insanity. I’m sorry, but it’s the truth. We teens are easily tempted nowadays. We find it difficult to tell the difference between good and bad. Do you know why? It is because we want to be cool and popular. Our friends are doing it, so why can’t we? We want to impress others. We feel that we are old enough to make our own decisions. But these decisions destroy our futures and our dreams, and teens end up killing themselves.

Teens, what have you done? You have destroyed your happiness and your humanity. You have lost respect for your elders, your parents and, mostly, you have lost respect for yourselves. Look at yourselves, if you can look at yourself in a mirror. How dangerous you have become. You have stolen happiness. How careless and addicted you are. You bring fear into other people’s lives. You are destroying your future. Look at how many people have lost their innocence because of you. How reckless. How disturbing. You say you are sorry, but you all need a wake up call, because I can see that you are clearly sleeping. You know that I don’t mean to be rude, but look at yourself in the mirror! Tell yourself what you see, and tell yourself that you want to change.

For those teens who are addicted to drugs and alcohol:

  • Step one: Accept that you need help.
  • Step two: Apologise to the people that you have caused pain to.
  • Step three: Go find help and seek change.
  • Step four: Go to church and pray to the Lord for guidance. Ask for His forgiveness. He is the first person that you should ask for forgiveness from. He will cleanse you with his blood and change your heart.
  • Step five: Tell your testimony in front of the whole church. Encourage other people to not make the same mistake.
  • Step six: Stay away from the people you used to hang out with. Stay away from any person who is bad news. Bly weg. Stay away!
  • Have values and principles that no one can take away from you. Set rules for your life that you will follow. No one makes these rules for you. You make these rules if you love everyone, and you can expect to sometimes be loved back, because the Lord says: “Love those who hate you.”

    Most importantly: be patient with everyone and with the Lord.

    The choices that we make may haunt us. You may spend every day of your life regretting them. Every day these choices haunt you. You want to forget these choices, but they have become a part of you. Thinking about them has become your addiction, something that you need help with, but you feel that you can’t be helped. You cry yourself to sleep, but either way it eats you up inside. You became angry with yourself. You feel alone. You blame yourself for other’s mistakes.

    You know what? Snap out of it! Wake up! Bothering yourself in this way won’t help. It will only keep you in the past. It will move you backward instead of forward. So try to deal with these problems by yourself. Perhaps try therapy, if you want, or any other solution that you think will help. I would suggest Christianity. It will help you to find peace in your life. It will help you to be happy and to smile for a while. There are challenges that will arise, but you will overcome these for sure, because you will know that you have faced problems that were far worse.

    Wake up before it’s too late to change your mistakes! Wake up before you regret everything in your life!

    As we have all been told, think twice before you do something. Sometimes the paths we choose are surprisingly good, when you are honest with yourself, when you know what you want and you go out there to find and fight for it the hard way, not the easy way. Being proud of yourself is something big. It’s a great feeling to look back and say to yourself: “I started from the bottom and now I’m here. Who would have thought it?” You will be smiling and will be filled with laughter and joy in your heart. You will be able to say: “Finally, I have made it. They all tried to discourage me, but I pulled myself up.” You will thank everyone who supported you along the way.

    Start a new life, with new people, in a new city. Make everything new. Who knows? You might get married. Now that would be even more exciting!

    It is said that good things happen to good people. Well, the paths that we choose are entirely up to us. We all hope for good paths. That’s every parent’s dream for his or her child: to see him or her be successful in every way possible. That’s a fact.

    Be careful when you are famous because there is a problem called “money”. Money will make you abandon everyone, including your family, friends, and all the other people close to you. There is a saying that says: “Be nice to people on your way up, because you might just meet them on your way down.” This saying is very true.

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    Tell us what you think: Are you always nice to everyone you meet and know?