I was quite delighted the other night. It's not surprising that at night we expect the teenagers to sleep. There was one night that I caught one of our struggling teens reading a book late at night. I asked him to go back to sleep and didn't even suggest one consequence. Don't you want to find your teenager trying to get away with reading at night? That's like a dream of what a kid could be "in trouble" for. Yes, I had to have him go back to sleep, and within minutes I checked back and he was, but I was actually glad to find him wanting to read so badly as to try his very hardest to stay awake reading. He was obviously exhausted and in need of rest.
He reminded so much of the times when I was a boy. Sometimes after my mom caught me reading late at night, I'd pretend to be asleep for a half hour just to wait for her to check again, and see me "asleep" so I could go back to a delectable book.
So, if maybe you'd like your struggling teen to be "caught" doing something good, maybe you could make reading apart of your own life and get it to pass on to your struggling teen. Or, if it's too much of a struggle already, check Diamond Ranch Academies official website: DRA.
Yours truly,
- a man who's glad to be involved in something good
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I've just come back from a break from being at Diamond Ranch Academy. Having had a week to settle back into my busy role here, I'm simply impressed upon by how thankful I am that I work here. What a work to be a part of! I get so much out of being here, and I have no doubt that this is also true for the teenagers here as well.
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