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Teenagers go through a lot of insecurity and emotional turbulence. They need parental guidance and assistance. It helps to give them a blend of freedom and discipline.

Here are a few tips to help guide them.

• Help them to explore the various issues of life and deal with them creatively and effectively.

• Remind them that they are answerable to their conscience. And it shouldn`t be ignored or slighted. Each teenager should be answerable to himself.

• Every teenager    no matter how happy go lucky he or she is, needs to learn to respect the nobler qualities of life.

• Self-esteem is a vital part of personality development. Teach your teenager the necessity to respect himself as a person. And to be a person worthy of respect.

• Blazing new trails or walking new paths should be encouraged if that`s what the teenager wants to do. It is important to follow his heart`s call.

• Emphasise in them the need to own up to their responsibility. Each of them is responsible for their own actions.

• Teenagers should be seriously involved in some kind of community service. The need to think beyond themselves will hone them to be better adults and make the world a better place.

• Teach them the value of appreciating peace, liberty, justice and freedom. Don`t let them take it for granted.

Teenagers could be a confused lot    but they really are very endearing. Enjoy them.