How do you keep kids out of trouble?

Question

What's something they can do in the evenings/at night that won't get them into trouble?

Answer 1

kids will be kids.. have trust in them and they'll come around to stay away from drugs.  

Answer 2

teach them well

Answer 3

lol kids will always find a way to get into trouble, its what hey do, maybe enroll them in swimming, or sports ect or have things like like family game night, or family movie night ect

Answer 4

When our son was a teenager, all of his friends came to our house on week ends.  We bought a pool tabe, a ping pong table, an atarie game that you played on the TV with a lot of different games (two people could play .

They were very good at taking turns, the winner kept playing until someone beat him.

I made kool aid for them to drink,  I kept frozen

corn on the cob in the freezer whice they could put in the microwave, chips and dips.

The young people enjoy themselves very much.  They cleaned up after themselves.

On night my husband and I went out, when we arrived home, we found about 25 cars around our house and none belonged to our son.  He had a date that night but the other kids knew they were welcome in our home at any time.

If there was food in the refrigerator that I did not want them to eat, I would put a note on it Do not eat.

I know time has changed but young people have not.  They just want a place to hang out,  have fun, and to know they are welcome.  

They also know there are rules, no eating what I said not to eat, if you eat out of it, drink out of it, or got it out, then you through it in the trash or put it up.

Sometimes we would have 25 to 50 teenagers at our house.  Some of them would bring chips etc. even though they were not ask to do so.

It started out as being a small group that would come over, but the word spread to meet at Joel's house.

There was no drinking, smoking, dope, or cusing that went on.  Just kids having a good time being together and playing games.

You don't need a big house, young people do not mind being crowded.

The pool table and ping pong table were a great investment to know where our child and his friends were.  

So let them know that their friends are welcme and that you won't interfere.  However you go out in the room where they are in every once in a while to make sure everything is OK.

Answer 5

well my parents have kept me on an extremely tight leash my entire life. i am now 13 years of age and they NEVER let me out of their sight. they wont even let me go to a different aisle at the grocery store!! and my mom wont let me hang out with a friend unless she has investigated them and their parents!!

and they are always keeping me busy with soccer and basketball and bible school. plus we are super religious so my sister and i are very respectful to our religion (we are christian). also you can get them purity rings. that's what my parents did for my sister and i.

Answer 6

let them live life we are only teens once in our lifes

but still tell them not to do drugs

and dont do family game night thats really lame and trust me im a teen and i know they wouldn't like it they would probably only do it to not hurt your feeling but dont force them pleasee

we always find a way to get into trouble even if we dont mean it we just want to have fun and have fun teen memories