Aloha ALL REBELS this one is for you... What provokes a teenager to want to be a "Rebel"?
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By not wanting to conform to stringent rules society says we have to obide by when they make no sense.  By wanting to do or say or believe something that society says you can't.  By wanting to be different and make a statement all your own.  By wanting to be an individual instead of part of the heard.  By wanting to be a leader rather than a 'sheep'.  Your own uniqueness as opposed to the mold they want you to fit into.  That is what makes you a rebel.\n\nIs being a rebel bad? nope!  Some of our greatest artists, musicians, thinkers and educators were rebels.  They did what people said they couldn't.  Rebelling isn't bad.  Stand back and let them.  They are finding themselves.
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they expect them to obey when the teenagers want to be free
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Fear of rejection. Fear of never fitting in.  Parents not adequately preparing their children for the pressures of being a teen.  During your teenage years, you are trying to become your own person.  You so despearately don't want to be exact copies of your parents, so you go in the other direction and try to be like your peers.
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I want my son to be himself -- I don't try to impose my tastes on him.  On the other hand, I want him to be respectful of others who may not share his tastes or interests.  As a parent, I believe it is my job to prepare this person I brought into the world to contribute to society and not be a burden of others.  It is hard - we all want our kids to be sweet and innocent forever - but that's not reality.  Plus I'm a single mom; so I was determined not to raise a Mamma's boy.\n\nI want him to appreciate the value of the hard work it takes to earn the money to purchase things.  Since he was 8, he has done yard work around the neighborhood to earn spending money to buy the things he wants.  He turned 14 in the spring and got his working papers and had his first real job over the summer.  He then got his own checking account and check/debit card.  He knows how to shop around for the best price, and save up for larger items.  He also knows that the logos and labels on objects don't necessarily make them better.  \n\nHe also is responsible for his own things - he has done his own laundry since he was 10.  He knows how to wash dishes, and he knows a little about cooking.  Even though he's always complained about me making him do this stuff over the years, he sees how his friends take their material things and their parents for granted, and he knows that when he goes off to college, he'll be able to take care of himself, and won't need to rely on me or some chick to take care of his basic needs.
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I am a youth counselor at a detention center for at risk youth and I see this alot. Now I am only 23 years old so I don't know how much I can influence the crowd here but here it goes. I think with the kids I deal with there are 2 main things that add to the equation. Parents and Pop Culture. With parenting I think people arent willing to put in the time and also agree with the fact that parents are trying to be friends. Also I don't know if there is any connection but I would say with the number of single parents increasing and the age at which people are impregnated. A irresponsible youth can't raise a responsible person. By the time the kids I work with get to be teenagers, the parent usually wants to make up for the teenage years that they themselves lost leaving a kid to fend for himself. As far as pop culture goes I just isn't popular to be nice anymore most music is about being depressed or being a gangster, alot of the movies my youth watch when not in program have to do with the same or with sexual acts. Well that's all on this matter for now any questions feel free to write.\n Timmy
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Teens need to learn that there are limits and boundaries to what they can do.  You just talk about them and don´t expect them to accept it on face value. Tell them what will happen if they don´t respect those limits, not in terms of threat but in terms of reasoning with them.  They understand that out there, there are traffic lights, bills to pay and other "real-life" limitations to comply.  Don´t become a police for them.  Teach them that everyone is responsible for order and good keeping of the places they inhabit.
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Temptation and the modern teen.
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My 14 year old daughter, who I feel is a normal, well adjusted teenager sometimes has an attitude, is sometimes taken as rude, but is really not being so. She will say things like, "Gah Mom, you're just so off the chain, DUH!"  and while I know what she means, but some of my friends take her as rude. She's a straight A student, is on the Varsity tennis team, is on the Pom Squad, has gorgeous long blond hair that is dyed bright pinkish-purple, her navel is pierced, and she sometimes dyes her hair black and goes with the Goth look.  She is not allowed to have a boyfriend and I know where she is 24/7... when I call the land line she is supposed to be at, she is there... I don't go for checking on her with cell phones.  She gets pouty when she doesn't get her way, and whines and mopes, just like all kids do, but if I squirt her with a water bottle, she straightens up.  I think for the most part, teenagers are good kids, they are just taken on face value and are not really understood.   I was an 80s kid, so maybe I just see kids differently, I know what's under those grungy clothes.. just kids being kids.
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Oh no - your appliances have reached teenage.  Watch out for them running off to their rooms crying, gathering in furtive groups, wearing labels you never heard of and asking for money and a ride to the mall.  Set some ground rules now before it all breaks loose.\n---------------------\nWhat the heck time of day is it in your part of the world to be mowing the lawn??????
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some teens seclude themselves, others will become violent or rebel, and others will just put themselves into some kind of activity to forget about their troubles like a sport, hobby or schoolwork. I'm sure there are other reactions, but these are three of the most common and broad reactions that i have seen.
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Dear Yahoo Answers: Please create a new category Teenage Morons with Relationship Angst (Caution: Only for the mentally-challenged)!
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You are brave indeed!\n\nI'm the mother of four teenagers and former teenagers and have had three others live with me and have had lots of them just kind of hanging around, eating me out of house and home.\n\nWhat I would offer you is the knowledge that teenagers love being together.  What they do while they are together is usually second to the experience of just being able to spend time together.\n\nThings that the very varied group here have enjoyed are:\n\nmusic--this is key!  I'd suggest playing a variety and giving the music-makers among them a chance to play for the others.  A dance is a nearly universally enjoyed experience and they can dance in the outback, dressed in shorts and tee shirts as well as they can in prom gowns and tuxes.  If you slap a theme on the thing, they'usually like to talk about what they'll wear for weeks--you'll get a lot of mileage out of that.  I guess I wouldn't suggest the theme my daughter's Homecoming Committee had for their dance--Survivor--since you'll be living it all of the time, but something like a luau theme or a club theme will give the girls something to primp for.\n\nContests are good, too.  One son was in a group in high school that went on long scavenger hunts.  You might have them find things native to the area you'll be in which will help them to learn about the place they are living.  Or you could make it a treasure hunt, with clues to follow and something good to find.  \nRelay races, the kinds of games they like playing when at home (frisbees seem to be used a lot around here), even board game night can be successful.  I think I'd try to come up with some tournaments, too, where people play something and progress or are eliminated, but can still root for others.  I seem to have Frisbees on the brain today, but Frisbee golf might work for this or even a card game that isn't too complicated.  I think I'd try to organize some things as team efforts and some as individual efforts.  And it's really important to include kids whose talents aren't in the area of physical might.  Checkers, chess, a talent show;  there are plenty of activities that tap different abilities.\n\nYou didn't say if you would have access to equipment to show DVD's, but if you do, Movie Night would be good, or maybe the chance for kids to check somethings out of a movie library.  Oh!  And don't forget reading material, crossword puzzles (another contest/race perhaps?), Sudoku puzzles...\n\nYes, I am really getting enthusiastic here!  Can I come along?\n\n(You could also form a committe drawn from the kids or their parents to help come up with ideas.  They know what they like to do, right?  And don't forget--teenagers eat A LOT, especially kids who are working hard.)
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Ugh, another teenager asking a relationship question.\n\nBoys are immature, so expect them to act that way.
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Peer pressure, active kids, puberty, rebellion, growing up. 20 years old I think.
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Kids like labels.  They may announce that they don't, but the truth is, kids want to be any number of things like "cool", "rebellous",  "scene", "jock", "prep", "goth", "punk", etc.  Still looking for themselves, they latch onto groups, cliques, and societies that they make.  Each clique generally has strong rules, usually culled from self-inflicted stereotypes.  Desiring to fit in, to be accepted, to be wanted they go along with the group, and, voila, peer pressure is born.  \n\nIt's almost a status thing.  If everyone expects you to do _____ because you present yourself as ______ and (here's the big one) you want to keep up your friendship with ______, then you'll cave into the pressure.
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a mother who loves her daughter and wants the very best for her.  Who wants her baby girl to grow up to become a responsible loving human being and so is raising her with discipline, love and grace.  You think it's tough being a teen...try being the mom of a teen.  --no, second thought wait a good long time before you try being the mom of a teen
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Hmm....I wonder why they are so desperate for money........why they haven't fuond contentment in all the things they could be doing as a young person...I wonder if they have an addiction and are trying to get money for drugs...I feel like they wear their desperation and are missing out on the truly good and satisfying things.