 Teens’ bad friends is the number one problem that worries parents. Teens’ bad friend is the number one cause of getting into trouble. These teens said that there is nothing parents can do.
The Reasons
One reason that parents can't hold away their child from a bad friend is that the friend often has a stronger relationship. As you know, when a child is young, his parents are the main power in his life. As children go into adolescence a change happens. A natural part of adolescents is breaking away from parents and making close ties with peers. This is natural. If the parent child bond is healthy, children will finally renovate their bonds with their parents. As a rule, this occurs in the late teens or early twenties.
There is one more reason why parents find it so hard to separate their teens from bad friends – this is that they simply can't replace their teen’s friends.
What Parents Can Do
Do Not Criticize Your Child's Friends
If your child is going in a bad throng, your hold on him is loose or non-existent. The last thing you should do is to get an enemy. If you make a personal attack on your child's friend that is exactly what you are going to get, a sworn enemy.
This enemy will now be out to get you and he very likely to have more power on your child than you.
It will not help to tell your child not to tell this friend. If you criticize your child's friend, this person will get to know about it in several minutes to hours after the words leave your mouth. In such a way you will have made an enemy for life, at a time when you especially need every partner that you can get.
Nevertheless, this does not mean you cannot criticize the behavior. It is sensible to explain your child that you object to the things his friend is doing. Though, you shouldn’t make it a personal attack. Once you do that, you position yourself in a fight that you are almost certain to lose.
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