can anybody direct me to some useful websites for information on troubled teens?

Question

my 13 year old son has behaviour problems both at home & school, he's disruptive & constantly naughty 24-7
please can you point me in the right direction?
thank you very much

Answer 1

Try parentzone... I've got some good advice from there regarding my 10 year old not sure about older kids but there will be info on helplines and staff that might help....... Good Luck

Answer 2

I know you've asked for websites, and sorry I am not giving the answer you were looking for....

If he's thirteen and acting up seriously enough the best thing you could do is start by talking to the school counselor and maybe going with him to a private counselor.

Kids (especially boys) that age can act up and fool around a lot, so if he's just doing the "run of the mill" stupid stuff he may just need some talk about why he has to dial some of it back. If he's doing things that are outside what is normal for a kid that age you need to go with him to a counselor.

You may want to talk to him calmly about knocking off some of the more troublesome things he's doing but leaving him alone on some of the less serious matters. See if you can reach a compromise that will keep him out of trouble even if it doesn't result in his getting great grades or winning any behavior awards.

He may not be all that troubled. He may just be getting a kick out of doing 13-year-old/idiot stuff that he thinks is funny. He could have some serious unhappiness, though; or he could have some kind of learning problem. These are things a counselor could help get to the bottom of.

I think teenagers are more complicated than two-year-olds. I think you can get better advice in books and online about toddlers, but when it comes to a kid who is acting up at 13 its usually a combination of factors in his life, personality, and emotional state that add up to whatever it is he's doing.

Talk to someone who can really get to the bottom of what's going on and give (maybe) both of you some tips on making things a little better. If he's seriously troubled get him professional help now; because if you don't it is going to get far worse (and it could get bad enough when he's another couple of years older that you really won't know what to do for him). Get outside help now to head off more serious problems.

Answer 3

like crazyeyes said,put troubled teens in the search bar and there are loads of sites.i would have give you some but i don't know if you are uk or us.have a look there are sites for both.

Answer 4

1 in 12 UK teenagers self-harms:
http://www.iout.org/forum/topic-66.html

For the rest there is this:
http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=troubled+teens&ei=UTF-8&fr=ks-ques&x=wrt&meta=vc%3D

Good luck

Answer 5

google search it