Adolescence is considered one of the most challenging in childhood development. Parents lose a lot of nerves trying to establish contact with the maturing child. Sometimes it ends with the child leaving home, leaving the parents alone with the darkest thoughts. Such departures are cries of despair. And if you don't worry about them, everything can end very badly.
Instructions
Step 1
First of all, check the contacts of his close friends. Teenagers are usually afraid to go nowhere. The easiest way to find them is from friends or relatives. If the friends of the son of his own age, they may not give out the place of your child's presence, then you should contact their parents. It is definitely not worth leaving this gesture unattended.
Step 2
Explore the boy's social media contacts. In general, psychologists do not recommend getting into the correspondence of a child with peers. But in critical situations, this is permissible. On the child's page on the social network, you can find his potential like-minded people, in whose company he spends time.
Step 3
Hire a detective if your son's exits are repeated often, and every time you cannot find him on your own. This is a very extreme case, and it is worth resorting to it only in difficult situations. It is important to make sure that the child does not spend time in drug dealerships, not at trainings of sects and not in bad companies. Just do not tell him about this step, otherwise you risk completely losing confidence.
Step 4
Work on the psychological climate in the family. In addition to purely organizational measures to find the missing child, it is important to root out the roots of the problem. Teens only leave home if their parents misunderstand the adolescent developmental crisis. This crisis is manifested in the fact that a teenager wants to treat himself as an adult, but at the same time he does not have his own resources for an independent life. The best parental response to a teenage crisis is to accept the growing up of a son. And help in finding the resources to become more independent. Continuing to live with his parents, the boy can earn money on his own, for example, for computer games or fashionable gadgets. Just giving money and continuing to control every step of the child is not an option.
