INTRODUCTION

THE DANGERS OF TEENAGE NEGLIGENCE is a book worth laying hands on as it exposes some inevitable factors responsible for a child sorrowful way of life in the future..... And these factors are:
1. Sexual exposure
2. Educational enlightenment
3. Peer pressure
4. Family background
5. Juvenile delinquency

SEXUAL EXPOSURE

Sex is an unspoken communication of what the heart want to say. An erotic feeling which begin long in the child"s life especially during his teen years, and probably discover them more or less by accident.
Majority of our teen-agers involve themselves in all sought of illicit affairs such as all forms of sexual abuses, obsession like homosexuality, lesbianism, infatuation and every other acts of immorality and lust. Failure to curb this situation early, may lead to misconduct in the later part of their lives. Do you agree without question that the greatest cause of increase in sexual immorality in the society today where singles, and married couples engage in this illicit act is anxiety, which occur in their early life.
A child may desire certain amount of satisfaction by manipulating his sexual organs. All these period of psycho sexual development are normal, but these secret acts of sexual excitement becomes his character when carried to excess, and may plague him to the end of his days.
As earlier said, the period of life when these sexual feelings , and romantic emotion first become strong is at teen-age years, and many of them are all too eager to experiment sex which lead to wrong conduct. He seeks for the information from his parents and many parents are embarrassed to explain about sex to their children. Fortunately, he got the information from somewhere, but such sources are often faulty, and sometimes they are downright immoral.
The lack of adequate sex education is a major factor. This is not a medico education expose anyway, rather it is strictly aimed at highlighting some sensitive areas of human life that attract a vital interest in parents, guidance, teachers and counselors in the upbring of youngster. It is also vital when viewed along side the rate of moral decadence in our society, broken homes, unwanted pregnancies, abortions, children without father, social deviance and sexually transmitted diseases which has lead to widespread frustrations among the teen-agers in the later part of their lives.

What to Do

1. He should avoid the habit of masturbating. This harmful behaviour tends him to be secretive, living a kind of dream world where fantasy plays a dominant role.
2. His mind should be filled with noble and uplifting thought.
3. A child's curiosity to know about sex is perfectly normal, and parents should tell him the "facts of life." The earlier he understands those things, the less trouble he is likely to get into in life.
4. The dangers of premature sex relations should be related to the child as she may be a school dropout as a result of unwanted pregnancy or a carrier of deadly sexually transmitted diseases e.g AIDS.
5. A child should be discouraged from watching immoral films and pornographic pictures as he/she may become a lesbian, homosexual, prostitute etc
6. Teen-agers should understand that sex is sacred, and mean't for only the married.

Education

"If the foundation is destroyed, what shall the righteous do." This quote can also be applied to education as: "If Education, the fundamental basic need of every child is denied, what will the society become." The primary objective of formal education is to produce responsible young adults who are well-develpoed intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Eduactors play a key role in producing these well-adjusted young adults.
The wise understands illetracy to be the most lethal disease, and so invest all his farthings on it. Its heritage trancends the boundaries of time, as potentials fully utilized is inestimable. A child, who is not educated may loose confidence in himself, and passion for innovation.
A child denied of his right of at teen-age years adversely affect his chara, personality and inabilty to face academic challenges in the future.

What to Do

1. Educators should enlightening the public especially parents, especially the importance of education to their children/ward.
2. Educators should discipline any student due to his/her acts of disobedience to school authority.
3. Every child should understand the benefits of education, and this noble realisation at teen-age years, enables him to discover his potentials and interact with people of different character in the society.

Associate

Can i stay without having or making friends? I believe EVERYONE needs friends-people they can relax with during good times and rely on during the bad. Friends who will stick with you through the thick and thin!
As an elemental fact: children develop characters easily through the influence of friends especially at teen age years. Teen-age years is a period when a child is bound to experience what is called peer pressure as they are tempted to join peers in improper conduct-smoking, drinking of alcohols, drugs, sex etc. The forging of close friendship with people who do not share your interests and values will definitely affect your conduct, where you begin to slide deeper and deeper into the quicksand of this world.
A child is launched into his own orbit of beliefs, view and characteristics of an adult life as he relates with his friends.

What to Do

1. "Evil communication corrupts good manner," so parents should watch their childs association at close range.
2. A child is advised to leave the scene of peer pressure quickly, because the longer you stay, the greater the chance that you will become their puppet.

Home

School problems are caused by teen-agers and are not filtered from the problems of the society today. Recently, The New York Times reported, describes these conditions as alarming and calls for intervention where "Students sleep in class, threaten each other, belittle the good students....Almost all the students are coping with problems like caring for babies, dealing with incarcerated parents and survivng gang violence. Almost one-fifth are absent on any given day."
What children at these young ages engages are critically amazing. They involve in routine shootings and stabbings. Many educators worldwide commented that children of nowadays especially teen-agers have no respect for teachers, and such disrespect for authority poses a real danger to other children and the society in general.
To curb these problems in school, parents, counselors and the society should understand that the teachers are no longer the only captain on board, ans so request for cooperation by:

• Telling their children right from wrong.
• Discipline them for acts of misconduct.
• Teaching them the word of God.
• Show mutual love and care for them.
• Instill in their children obedience and respect for authority.