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Saturday, February 2, 2013

When a youth needs to make a break from you or the program

Eventually all the youth need to leave. Maybe sooner, because of changes in the school or family situation, maybe later as they graduate from high school. For some of them this may be a traumatic and, as they see it, a looming event and they may have reactions that affect you and your program.
  • Recognize that their departure may also have emotional content for you, and you also may act out because of it.  At “Senior Sunday” activities, I would tell my congregation that I have “empty nest syndrome times 20, every year.”
  • Some kids will reappear as suddenly as they disappear. When whatever was getting in the way, real or imagined, is removed, they will act as if nothing every happened and that they were never away.
  • Some kids can be inactive and disinterested from birth to their senior year and suddenly become active.
  • Some may think they are really active, when they are not
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