How do you deal with bad behavior in teenagers?

Almost every kid I know is disrespectful to their parents and refuses to listen to reason. For instance, a kid I know comes home and tells her parent she thinks she has just been sexually assaulted by her boyfriends step dad, which is not unusual, cause she says she is assaulted sexually frequently. So the parents never know what to beleive. The next day she asks if she can go to her boyfriends house where the stepdad lives, when her mother tells her no she begins throwing a hissy fit and storms out of the house. This child runs away whenever her parents try to contain her, and when they try to restrain her physically she tries to report them to authorities for abuse, how would you handle this?How do you deal with bad behavior in teenagers?
I am a teenager, and the more I look around, the less respect I see in other people my age for others. My sister is one of those people.





Personally, a part of it might be that I was spanked when I was young, and when I am grounded I am not let off after a few days. It starts young. You will have a hard time changing teenagers when they are older. My advice is to show them that whatever they do you are not going to back off on your word. You need to discipline them if they misbehave, and you need to deal out the full punishment.





Popular culture is massively to blame for the way teenagers act. If MTV, rap, swearing on TV or in movies, or sexual refrences were outlawed, in twenty years we might see a difference. Did you know that the fashion of having your pants down to your ankles came from starving, beltless convicts? Why is this something to aspire to be?





There is nothing you can do except start young and give no quarter. To the girl whose boyfriend's dad molested her, just call the cops. If people would just report this stuff, it wouldn't happen.How do you deal with bad behavior in teenagers?
i am all for affirmative action, i have no problem with beating my own blood if its gonna help him out in the long run. of course you cant always resolve problems with a nice beat down, a parent has got to talk to sense into their child (yelling, sometimes, but what i mean is consulting/counseling). use a tape-recorder to record some of the crazy things they say and tend to forget and throw it back in their face.
This is more than just bad behavior. She definitely has a serious problem. No one would get upset for not being allowed to go to a place where they are being abused - unless they have something radically wrong going on in their head.





The parents ought to get her professional attention. This cannot be talked over casually and hope for a resolution.
Give her a talking on how stubborn she is being. Telling her to think in your position. You tell a person about a serious situation and intend for them not to do anything is stupid. If you are going to go to someone with a problem like this let them help rather than not. The parent cares for you and doesn't want you to keep getting the negative abuse. If you want to keep getting abused and not want the help then go because you gave the offer yet she still pulled away. If she does take that offer to not want your help then let her be, but if it gets way extreme than before get back in the situation by getting affirmitive action. Usually a talk with powerful words can affect someone deeply.
Sounds like someone didn't get enough good *** whippings and real family bonding time/emotional support when she was younger...... if the parents have allowed their child to become like this I doubt that there is much that they can do now... lets face it if they were the type to be able to handle the situation well things wouldn't be as they are. I apologize if that seems a little harsh. Hope you get some good advice....
it's one thing to test boundaries, but psychollogical problems need psychollogical treatment. I predict boderline personality disorder, or histrionic personality disorder. No im not a doctor but i do write like one on yahoo answers.
TAKE AWAY THEIR MOST PRECIOUS THING
Sounds like the makings of a Maury show.





Something drastic needs to be done, perhaps boot camp ?
if sitting down with them and discussing issues will not work out, it's time to get into counselling (professional help) as already advised by the first answerer. i've watched this show in either dateline or 20/20 where they put their kids to boot camps to learn discipline. the kids learned the hard way but the outcome is very promising.





my question is, what happened to that child while she was growing up? did the parents neglect her in a way that she lack discipline and seems to be full of hate? where's that childs respect for her parents? something went wrong there while this kid was growing up and her present behavior tells it all. i feel for the parents.
depends on the kid.


what works w/ 1 may not work w/ another.





Hancuff her to her bed.


beat her.


send her to military school.


put her in a boot camp.


put her in juvie.