Isn't it great to see a teenager working hard; doing as they are told. Keeping with the right company; keen to do homework - even when none is set. Always in a book; producing top levels in their SATS and top grades in tests.

Respectful, helpful and kind; keen to learn at every opportunity. Goes out and has fun too, but in moderation; likes music, but will do something useful while listening; and of course, has high expectations of themselves, and good ambitions.

This teenager will always put in 100% effort. They achieve the best they could possible do, and they deal maturely and philosophically with problems. If your teenager and other teens you know are as above then you need read no further. Congratulations!!!!

How to Motivate Teenagers?

Use whatever means possible to motivate teenagers. Get them to increase their productivity and motivation. Get them to stop wasting time. Find out why they are not doing three times the amount of work that they presently do.

Intensify their yearning to learn. At least fifty per cent of teens perform below their potential at school. Is this success? Or failure. The challenge is for you to get them to be fed up with mediocre performances.

Achievement is not just about examination grades and levels, but also the development of other skills such as sport, music, drama, computer skills in depth research, writing and other worthwhile hobbies.

In today’s pressured world, many teens are afraid to fail—and even—afraid to succeed. As Douglas Malloch so aptly wrote:

If you can't be a highway then just be a trail,
If you can't be the sun be a star;
It isn't by size that you win or you fail-
Be the best of whatever you are!

Basketball legend Michael Jordan has said:

“I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot... and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. I succeed.”

So from one teen to another: I encourage you to do today what others won’t, to have tomorrow what others never will…And never be afraid to fail! The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them, into the impossible.

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