How do you get a teenager to realize how important education is?

Answer 1

Make them work in a fast food place for a summer job.Simply them them that is what the future holds for them without a college education.

Answer 2

Wow, what a tough one !!! To be perfectly honest with you if you are trying to convince a teenager to stick with education then i feel for you as i know for a fact that getting a teenager to realize how important education is before it is too late is one of the toughest jobs of being a parent, personally i would rather have five kids all going through there terrible two's running around my feet than trying to get a teenager to realize how important education is, Is there nothing on the net to try and make it more interesting etc?

Answer 3

Go strawberry picking!

This is the perfect time of year, too!

I read an article once about a hispanic man that taught his family about the importance of education by taking his children to work in the fields with him to illustrate what their options were in life. He didn't criticize doing manual labor or earning poor wages. Honest work is honorable work. But he just pointed out to them that it was their choice. They could work in the fields with no education, or get an education and find work elsewhere. Neither was a shameful option, although, one would certainly make life easier in the long run.

So, go strawberry picking! Kick the kid out of bed at 3 AM on a Saturday morning and go with them. Actions speak louder than words, especially to a teenager.

Then listen. Listen, listen, listen. Maybe your teenager has a passion in life that would require pursuing a different road than traditional education. I'm just a post-teenager myself, but I know I respond better to people who really know and UNDERSTAND me. LISTEN!

Answer 4

They do realize they just tend to ignore the fact!!!
Some don't like to think of homework but prefer to think of what are they going to do with friends after school.
At this age they are seeing world to be fun place!!!
No responsiblity of kids, bills , etc...

As a parent, all you can do is REMIND THEM!!! Keep up with their grades, go to school conferences, make sure they are doing well, , getting A's and B's good enough grades to get into a good college.

Then when they graduate high school, it is really up to them to do what they want with their life!!
Hopefully you are an excellent parent to get the point across that education is most important and they follow up with college!!!

Good Luck!!!

Answer 5

im a teenager im 15, but what you could do is show them how it would be without an education, it is easy telling them but you could do something to show them, give them examples of people who don't have an education and ask them what they want to be and tell them what type of knowledge they will need cause if they don't get a real education they will be working in a McDonalds for a long term career and I know I don't want to work there so I am focusing on school and I will wait for the boys and save them for later!

Answer 6

first of all do you have any refferences to point out to? for example, is the teens parents also educated? grandparents? uncles? anyone in the family? i dont know, but in my case, the issue that my family including relatives have been educated kinda pushed me along the wave to realizing how important it is. try considering that.

if there are no refferences, i would simply go straight forward and say, 'listen, do you want to end up at the cash register in supermarket across the street on a saturday evening worring about whose going to pay for your kid's doctor appointment? or do you prefer driving a bmw on a friday night after a nice day at work thinking about your conference trip next week in paris?

you just have to let them know the big differences that would come up in the future.

Answer 7

Most teenagers are not open to negotiation when it comes to education, we have four boys and one girl, as for the boys two of them thought education was for wimps until I got them a job on a ranch, I made them stay for one year and told them that if they quit they would not be aloud to come back home, they only lasted four months and begged me to let them go back to school one was 14 and one 16 today they have graduated from high school and are pursuing careers in agriculture.

Answer 8

All this hoopla about college. It really isn't that important. I have friends with masters doing entry level work for low wages, because without experience in said field, you can't get work. Then theres my husband (and majority of men in this community) with no college ,no training, staring jobs at $120-150,000 a year. Much more than alot of highly edjucated people. So why waste your time and money on school if it doesn't pay?

Answer 9

to get you teen to listen you can't preech. You need to get hands on. Give them examples and reasons why education is important. Show them how much better it is to know what your dealing with. There are lots of great computer games that mix education with fun. Its not that teens are against learning, they just want to have fun.

Answer 10

lol, my mom got pregnat when she was 18 and that ruined her education and everything. If you explain to her that if she flunks school what does she expect for her future? Does she just want to flip burgers for the rest of her life? Education should always come first, it's okay to want to do other things, but school is what makes you succeed in the future. Without it, well your basically screwed. Ask any failure.