Help, My Daughter is Pregnant !

HELP! My teenager has run away from home!,................help, my teen has been suspended from school!,.............................help, my daughter has been arrested,.........................help my daughter is pregnant! These are very common problems you will find if you visit forums for parents of teenagers. These problems are tough to deal with and very heartbreaking for mothers. I have experienced a few of these situations and cried ..........a lot. What is the answer???.............. It's usually counseling for the family, tough love parenting, prayers and family support. These answers do not have immediate results and there are months and sometimes years before the teenager matures and gets their life back on track.

What I have to offer in this blog IMO (in MY Opinion) is a prevention plan. This plan must be started in the tween years (ages 7 to12). You must bond with your tween through a common interest. All the hours you spend with your tween doing fun things together is critical talking and teaching time. You are teaching by being a great role model, by discussing teen problems and how to prevent them, by developing their self esteem, and by Listening, Listening, Listening to their feelings and ideas and helping them to understand how to navigate the crazy world they must live in.

Our culture is not helping to raise girls with values and self respect. Our pop culture quite frankly is poisonous to our young women. As moms we must teach our girls to ignore the pop culture garbage messages and teach them to be strong and successful as individuals and not followers.