If your youth seem to be drowning in an emotional slump, unreasonable angry and irritable, or inexorably lured into the spurious safety of drugs, ‘hanging’, computer gaming or social networking…
You need to elevate them out of the slump, not just let them suffer it as an affliction they will bear for the rest of their life, or dismiss it as a “momentary lapse” they will grow out of naturally.
Do you really want them to live out the rest of their life just
stifling feelings with medications?
managing with forced self-restraint?
perpetually governed by controlled restraint?
consumed with abstinence as their only goal and main ambition?
being the project of another more balanced person?
Wouldn’t you rather have them
become the intelligent, successful person you meant them to be?
live life, enjoy life naturally?
know where they are going and how to get there?
have the freedom to be themselves, believe in themselves, be the authority of their own life?
