Comments on: Why You Should Never Give Up on a Troubled Youth

By: Troubled Youths

Troubled Youths — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:39:52 +0000

Great help for troubled teens parents. This blog is really interesting and gives lot of useful information to parents and families in trouble. Troubled teens needs more support and any normal kid. So, parents must keep this in mind to handle the situation.

By: Fawn

Fawn — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:50:35 +0000

I hope my husband is thankful that I unconditionally loved him.
I think he sometimes beats himself up for who he used to treat people. :-(

I just saw what he had inside him and couldn’t help but love him.

It is sometimes hard to see teachers tattling on a student to a parent because you know that it will sometimes just make the kids life worse. :-(

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:27:02 +0000

Phillip,

You are an inspiration. You can do it.

Thanks for sharing your story here.

By: Phillip Semprini

Phillip Semprini — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:40:28 +0000

For this poem, I was motivated by my Special Education students.

Why give up,
Why give in,
If I were to give up;
There is no way to know what I need within.

Why give up,
Why give in,
If I were to give up;
There is no way to know what I need to begiin.

Why give up,
Why give in,
If I were to give up;
There is no way to know what I need to win.

From before I was the born the doctors predicted me to only survive being “mentally retarded”. It wasn’t until after high school when in college I was a miracle survivor after the front seat of my car was driven into by a drunk that left me in severe condition. I survived with a Savere Traumatic Brain Injury. After out-patient therapy I wanted to go back to school. I wanted “to finish what I started.” So I studied “Human Services” got an Associates degree. Now I am studying Special Education. After I want to study Speech. After that I want to Law so I can completely reform Illinois, get everyone out of the past.

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By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:36:16 +0000

I admire anyone who can lay it out and let the world know personal details about their life. You seem to have lucked out and found solid people willing to give you a shot at letting you be yourself. Interesting post. Lots to think about.

By: Ken DiGregorio

Ken DiGregorio — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:35:03 +0000

Thanks for sharing your own personal story. Shows that change is always possible. I sort of agree with the other post, above, too. I don’t believe there are no evil people in the world because there are… but maybe just maybe something can be done to save even them?? Good post!

By: irish

irish — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:38:34 +0000

there’s all kinds of acceptance. think about tolerance, minimizing your prejudice, learning thru the worst times without cynicism, no to racism and adopting less self-centered and less selfish philosophies where we try to understand or we improve ourselves because we want to understand others. then we can begin to claim that we are trying to be accepting people in all levels. starting from the persons closest to us.

By: Peter A. Mello

Peter A. Mello — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 04:11:18 +0000

Very powerful post. I work with at risk youth and find that showing genuine interest as human beings in combination with delegating real responsibility can produce tremendous results.

I also design and deliver corporate leadership development programs for adults and find similarly that love is a very important component in making teams work effectively and productively.

Thanks for sharing this powerful post.

Fair Winds and Godspeed,
Peter A. Mello
Sea-Fever Consulting LLC
http://sea-fever.org

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test 10/13/2007 « Strange Kite — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 18:00:07 +0000

[…] Why You Should Never Give Up on a Troubled Youth | steve-olson.com Annotated When I was young, many people who claimed to be helping me, lied to me, abused me, marginalized me, and wrote me off as another statistic. I don’t claim to be special or unique in any way, I am one of millions. One of the adults who accepted me unconditionally was a high school English teacher who was instrumental in setting up an alternative education program for troubled kids. He recently told me, “You never write off a kid, never, ever. They are human beings full of untold potential. There are no bad kids.” I agree that there are no bad kids, only kids that haven’t received enough love. There are no disposable teens. […]