Teen suicide, I believe is due to our culture of self. The self esteem teaching, family split up and overindulgence has brought about a hopelessness in young people.
When parents and teachers praises a child too much, they become arrogant, while at the same time knowing they really aren't that great. They spend their lives attempting to "appear" superior, but in their heart of hearts they feel condemned because there is a war going on in their heads, the war between knowing what they really are and attempting to pretend to be what their parents think they are.
Teens are not stupid, they know whether or not they earned the praise they receive. When they receive too much praise and adulation, they begin to realize their parents want them to be as wonderful as the parents claim. But when they don't measure up on the inside, they feel unloved.
Children who are not corrected enough, or given little encouragement to be better, know their parents are being phony and thinking only of themselves.
Hebrews 12:5-7 "…5 And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline, or lose heart when He rebukes you. 6 For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises everyone He receives as a son.” 7 Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?…"
Proverbs 12:1 “Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.”
Proverbs 13:24 “Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.”
The teen feels unloved because their parents false idea of them is pressure to keep up pretense. Instead of being what they really are, growing and learning through life, falling, picking themselves up continually, they are not learning, they are floundering while never able to progress past the "ideas" and "fantasies", they know are not real.
We know our parents love us no matter how many times we fall because they work to help us learn the right way that will be good for us.
Far too many parents are not raising their children, they are allowing them to go which ever way they want without discipline or instruction, it is proof the parent does not love them, and the children know it.
Children these days are undisciplined, lacking parental instruction, while little attention is paid to their welfare. Placing a child in front of the television, sending them off to school for others to train, while leaving them alone at home often, while two parents work, sends the message to the child that money is more important to their parent than they are.
Children need interaction, instruction, redirecting, correcting, from their own parents, when these things do not happen they become heart sick, lonely sensing intense rejection.
Children don't like discipline, but they know it is right and later as they mature they realize and appreciate it, unless the parents were negated by the institutions that taught different values than the parents.
In our day, many parents tried to raise their children properly, but the children were sent off to schools that brought a different and ungodly psychological standard, it worked against what the parents were doing. Up until about 25 years ago home schooling was illegal, but as the Christians began to push back, it became legal, by that time many children were ruined by the public school indoctrination
Now we have teen suicide as common, cyber bullying, sexting, filthy mouths and disrespect all around.
Hebrews 12:11 “For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.”
When we do things God's way, all of society benefits!
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