How to Get Rid of a Troublesome Teen
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Teenagers Can Be A Real Handful!
- Is your teenager giving you problems?
- Do you find yourself arguing constantly about clothes? curfew? anything?
- Does your teen grumble about chores?
- Are they constantly badgering you for a car, or to drive?
- Is this beginning to look like another school year from Hades?
- Finally, are you just plain tired of being the parent of a teenager?
Well, I may have found the solution to your problems!
All you have to do is move to NEBRASKA! That’s right, NEBRASKA!
Broadly-Expanded SAFE HAVEN Law
Seems it took a little while for Nebraska to pass a SAFE HAVEN law protecting unwanted infants. In fact, Nebraska was the very last state to adopt the law. However, when they finally did it, they did it up in a BIG WAY!
Nebraska’s new SAFE HAVEN law actually goes farther than the laws as enacted in other states. Instead of just allowing parents to abandon unwanted babies at hospitals with no questions asked, it actually goes beyond infants and potentially permits the abandonment of anyone under 19.
While lawmakers may not have intended it, the month-old law allows for the real possibility that frustrated parents of adolescents could actually drop off misbehaving teens.
However, Nebraska lawmakers sincerely wanted to extend the protection to all minors, which in Nebraska is age 19.
Senator Tom White was quoted as saying,
“All children deserve our protection. If we save one child from being abused, it’s well, well worth it.”
Why SAFE HAVEN?
In other states, SAFE HAVEN has been enacted to focus on preventing the abandonment of newborns, so that babies can be left in safekeeping, without prosecution to the abandoning parent. The idea is to prevent babies being dumped and left to die, or outright killed. SAFE HAVEN laws were designed to protect newborns.
What Nebraska has done, which is a BIG THING, is extend that protection to any unwanted or at-risk minor.
ON A VERY SERIOUS NOTE: It is important to remember that SAFE HAVEN laws do not protect the parent, or caregiver, from prosecution, if abuse has occurred. Thank goodness!
Thus far, according to reports, no children in Nebraska have been dropped off under the new law.
A Great-Grandmother’s Point of View
Just a bit of advice from a happy great-grandmother:
All the battles with your teenagers are so WORTH IT!
If you hang in there and keep loving them, no matter how awful or rebellious they seem - or how much they tell you they hate you, eventually they get past this stage.
When they grow up and realize the heck they put you through, they’ll be real sorry!
Ah! Revenge is sweet! Heh! Heh! Heh!
Best of all, they become wonderful people who will become your best friends.
And they sometimes give you grandchildren. And that’s the best reward of all!
Brennan
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You sure sound like a very wise grandmother with loads of wonderful tips and tricks!!
I was just discussing with my girlfriend last night about our kids. The thoughts did cross my mind: Will I be a grandmother one day? What kind of grandmother will I be?
I fully endorse the idea of loving our kids no matter the age. My kids are still young and hopefully, they won’t turn out to be rebellious teenagers!
Ho Ho, Evelyn,
Everything I know I learned from hard experience.
I used to joke that “demons” took over my precious children when they turned 13-14, and miraculously “left them” when they moved away from home.
Actually, teen rebelliousness occurs when parents don’t realize that this is the time when the child is trying to develop some autonomy, in preparation for becoming an adult.
I used to tell my children that their job was to learn how to control themselves and become self-directed so they could become adults.
Then I told them them that MY job was to keep them safe until they learned how to do it CORRECTLY!
Needless-to-say, we had disagreements about who was right, but they all grew up to be delightful and loving friends (once the demons left). Heh! Heh!
Brennan