Running away from home. When we were teenagers, most of us might have thought about this idea due to several reasons and some of these reasons might be quite funny. It's very common that at the age of seventeen, eighteen and nineteen, teenagers begin to have divergent thinking and ideas from their parents. At this age, young people tend to rapidly break free from parental influence and fall quickly to societal and peer pressures. Once they are outside, a teenager would seem that they can't have enough of all the fun going on around them . But as soon as he or she steps into their parents house, they'd feel as if a vast smoke of boredom would choke them before they'd have another opportunity of going out again. In some situations a teenager might unconsciously or deliberately vent out his or her frustrations on a younger sibling by snapping or screaming at to hem at the slightest mistake. A shocked and upset sibling might eventually report to mom or dad the bad treatment he had received. Mom and dad would definitely be dissapointed and might also use some harsh words in rebuking the older teenager. A teenage might react by grumbling bitterly, walking away and in some cases bursting into tears, to the amazement of his/her family. This would lead to such teenagers becoming more frustrated and even depressed as the day goes by. Ultimately, a teenager might become tired of everyone at home and start viewing their parents house thesame way you'd look at a prison. This creates a burning desire for the freedom to explore and experiment as much as they could without mom or dad monitoring thier every move. Often, If a male child ddissapear,it wouldn't generate a lot of controversy as much as when a female child runs away even though when both are wild in manners. This is because it's generally believed that boys could survive and look after themselves better than girls if left alone. I have heard about parents who deliberately chased out thier teenage sons out of the house. Recently, a man from the other street chased his eighteen years old son out of his house because he caught him smoking in his room (Lol). From time to time, fathers usually get into hot quarrels with sons especially when they start deviating from the path they had been brought up. A son might come home late at night and meet the gates already locked and his dad is already fast asleep. His father must have already warned him severally against keeping late nights but he never changed. He might definitely spend the rest of the night outside if mother doesn't plead on his behalf. But when it comes to a teenage daughter, the rules are quite different. A father would definitely be worried sick if his daughter had not yet returned home. The situation becomes worse when he finally realises that his daughter wouldn't be coming home at all. Due to a rebellious nature or an heated argument with her mom or dad, it wouldn't be difficult to guess that she had runaway and had not kidnapped, neither had she gotten into any form of danger. In such a scenario, a parent might be ashamed to announce to the neighbors that their daughter was missing especially when the neighbors are already aware that their daughter was the wild type. They'd already concluded that she had eloped with a boyfriend. Infact this is how it happens most of the time. Unless ofcourse if it was a girl of ten to fifteen years who doesn't know about such things, then everyone would be seriously worried . Even the police wouldn't take such cases about missing teenage girls seriously if they had carried out an investigation and find out that that the missing girl was very free with boys. The police would later tell her worried parents to ask thier daughter's friends about her whereabouts. No need to mention that these were the kind of friends that have been leading her down a very different path for a long time and were also responsible for the general change in her behavior. One of them might definitely have an idea of where she is at the moment and would be able to guess correctly the address of her boyfriend/manfriend or any other place that they could be found. Maybe none of the friends might know her whereabouts but cases of missing teenage girls are mostly temporary as they would definitely return home later. The police have handled lots of cases like this and they'd try thier best to convince her parents that their daughter was safe wherever she was. The young lady might decide to come back home after some days or at most, after a week. She would always come back home when she start becoming a bore to the man she eloped with or when he had assaulted her. After she had returned home, if the rumors going around initially were confirmed to be true, her parents would be too embarrassed to inform the neighbors or even the police that their daughter had been found. Lol. But when she doesn't still return home after two weeks, it then becomes a very serious matter. There might now be other explanations for her continual absence. Immediately, the police would swing into full action and do their best to look for her, in addition to the support of the whole community. Everyone in the neighborhood would now be praying for her safe return especially when that society have some criminal elements like ritualists, kidnappers etc. ******************************* Thank you for staying with me.
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Dear Bilqees, you portrayed the situation of teenagers very well. Exactly this period of children can be a difficult and stressful period for parents, because children behave really emotionally in this period. When the daughter of the family disappears like this, the parents' worries are indescribable.
And if care is not taking, mom and dad might start to fight themselves about whose fault it was
That was a good article of yours talking about the real situation of this new generation of teenagers. Even how we parents treat our children well and always teach them good discipline, we can't be able to avoid some factors that influence their behavior like peer group. Nothing will happen if we keep on scolding them, using harsh words to them because according to other people, they said we need to understand how they grow and act. But our guidance should be still there.
Sure.. in so doing, they would still come to realize that their parents always meant well for them
You're right friend.
I didn’t run away from home though I had that feelings. I ran away from school many times.
Lol.. that's another one. Why don't you write about the experience?
Run away from home its not good.But sometimes its happen with the teenagers.Because they are do mistakes to take decision.
Sure.. silly mistakes I guess
I relate this ,wayback when I was a teenager,everytime I got mad at my parents I was thinking that way bit I learned my life would be miserable libing without them.
Sure dear.. life would definitely not be interesting knowing that your parents are still life but you ain't see them
This is one of the cases mostly of the countries. A lesson, children must listen to their parents advises to avoid this kind of situation that give a worries a lot. A dangerous one especially if you are a girl. The parents will worried a lot and carry the heavy emotions they felt. It's really hard.
Sure dear... No matter the disagreemnt, young people should know that their parents would always love them
Yes my friend that's true. Parents are always to their children.
Aigoo! I have thought doing this thing also when I was younger. But there are times that at my age today, I also thought about it. Especially when I am feeling depressed and discouraged when my mama said to me something terrible. Mostly, about work and life. But at the end, I just chose to stay because I don't know where to go. Hehe.. As for you my dear. I encourage you to do not do it again, because your parents will be so worried for sure.
Lol. I have never done it, don't have the slightest idea of where I would pass the night... 😁
Hehehe. Strangely, I never thought about running away from home. The major problem my dad and I have was coming back home late and this was usually on days I go out to watch football games at night and his concern was mainly due to police raids at that time. I must admit that there was something that felt good about being a rebel 😂😂
Lol. I know that someone like you wouldn't have given his parents headaches when he was younger 😁
Hahahaha. I was a good child, relatively. I still am 😁😁😇😇
I'm in not anyway disputing that.. its very obvious 😁
😂😂😂😂 I will take the compliment. Thank you very much
Parents, the responsible ones that is, never stop worrying about their kids even if they already have a family of their own. With lots of wicked people out there, their concerns are unfounded.
Exactly sir.. i Sometimes believe that parents are mainly responsible of how their children turn out to be in life, whether good or bad
This reminds me of the year I ran away from home, I almost died sha 😂 I spent up to 2 months in the streets and I had to crawl back to my parents for survival. But I noticed since I returned home, I have been given more freedom to do what I want, I guess they don't want me to run away again if they pressure me too much 😂
Lol.. which kind pikin be this 😂. I can't imagine my son running away from home no matter what has happened between us. Two whole months! Chai, mom must have really been worried sick!
My mom was always crying, but luckily for all of us I came back to my senses and returned home. Nobody saw it coming and that was what made it worse, I shock them 😆
Lol. The fear of being flogged to coma when eventually found with not make me to try that stunt with my parents 😂
They might be feeling that way at first but after some weeks, the fear of me dying out there will overshadow their need of flogging me to hell 😂
Mummy must flog me o. And as she is flogging me, the both of us will be crying together. And after she have flogged me belleful. She will drive me out of the house again and tell me to go and look for my real mother.( I didn't kill my mother when I was a girl, you will not kill me) ... 😭
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 you want to kill me with laugh. As for me I am very important in my house o, so my mom always carry me like egg. At least it's not easy to be the first child of a family
It's not easy at all.. Most mothers love their first fruit more than the others, although they might not always show it. Even fathers too 🤗
I've tried a couple of times when I was a lil younger.
Lol. Some of us wouldn't be able to run away from our parents as much as we try
I have never runaway from home, just i have two cousins that ran away from home, the first one was when he was still very little, he came to our house because he wanted bread and tea, and his mom, a single mom could only offer rice, and the second, till date, would appear and after a little fight with her step mom, she would disappear again for a long time and we all would be looking for her
I heard of one woman who whenever she have a little quarrels with her husband , she would just run away to Dubai and stay like a month there. It is her husband that would now be begging her to come back.. money good fa 🤗
I swear😂😂😂.... But no lady should try that with me o...
I had tried, but I only ended up going back to our home. I can't stand the thought of being alone.
Lol. Then I guess you shouldn't try it again