Parents should note that one of the major reasons that culminate in waywardness among children is owing to lost of confidence. Apart from other physiological and psychological factors, succinctly, a child who is not focused in life, may be, out of parental fault, is very susceptible to gross waywardness. In this respect, children between 15-25 (young youths) years need more of this attention, with a view to restoring confidence in them; the following tips must be brought to bear in parenting feats:
1. Let your child discover his or her worth:
Despite foregoing behavioral and moral decadence in a particular child, parents should help him or her discover his or her worth. Parents should let them know that dignity is innate and unchangeable. It will surely form a spring board to his or her holistic development.
2. Your child is not alone:
Actually, efforts of parents in the course of parenting are all about standing by their child. Your child can be socially appreciating the presence of others, his or her parents,siblings etc., but physiologically lonely. Parents should perceive and discern their child's feelings by creating logistics and freedom for their child's to expression of feeling.
3. Don’t compare your child with others:
Bringing the above to bear culminates in inferiority complex among children. Breed your child to concentrate on his or her ability. Instead of avalanche of comparison especially during castigation, you set the object of comparison as a model for your child but not as a yardstick. This will enable the latent skills in your child develop.
4. Help your child to establish genuine friendships:
Let your child discover that the best way of having a good friend is being a good friend. Your role as a parent is not only to monitor the type of friends your child keeps but strategically, the impact of your child has in that friendship. Good friendship which your child has a great stake, contributes to polishing him or her with courageousness.
5. Let your child understand his family value:
Parents, a child who does not know the worth of his or her family; his fundamental education base, is very susceptible to lost confidence and moral degradation. Parents should monitor whether their children defend the values they teach them within the family outside the family circle. Is your child proud of his or her family background? If not, the step to waywardness has begun.
6. Redefine your communication link with your child.
Your child must be your best friend, if not, you may be trying to enhance the chances for waywardness in your child. Staying in touch with your child enables your child to withstand the adverse pressure of peer group. Let your child be inquisitive and ask questions; through this, you will relate and solve certain developments that may lead to waywardness. Prove to him or her that you can never hate him or her.
7. Renew your attention toward your child's prayer life and spiritual growth:
This is the summit of steps you must take to revive your child’s confidence. Let your child discover that God is the most important item in his or her life, followed by his or her parents, siblings, friends, education and his profession. This sequence of understanding in a child will develop your child adequately as he or she grows to meet stronger challenges.
