How do we control the teenagers?

in the uk at the mo we seem to be going through this mob debate,but what can we do to control the youngsters?i cant see a answer because some of the parents seem to adopt the same attitude.How do we control the teenagers?
Punishments that fit the crime.


What deterrent is there, they can do as they like and they get away with it. What a joke.How do we control the teenagers?
In the Uk most parents see punishments as a smack on the wrist, or to be sent to your room, or to have no pocket money, or just a friendly telling off. Or most of the time, NOTHING.





Thats why we have such a high number of ASBOS and yobs on the streets.





Kids like that, and kids who do wrong need a good belting, plain and simple.
I was a teenager thirty years ago. Back then I was afraid of doing anything wrong because i thought I would be punished by the police or my teachers or the guy who owned the sweetshop or whatever.


Then it became illegal for a teacher to give you a clip round the ear hole, wrong for a copper to tell you off and downright anti-social for anybody to actually complain about teenage behaviour. It wasn't their fault, they had nowhere to go and nothing to do.


Now we've all grown up and had kids of our own. A lot of us have taught these principles to our kids but some, and it is not a minority, have taken what they were taught, IE, don't worry about people in authority, they can't do anything to you, and inculcated their offspring with this notion.


So young people today simply do not have the respect for authority that previous generations had.


It seems obvious to me that the rising levels of violent crime coincides with the maturing children of those who were around when society became more relaxed to people who were, after all and in the buzz phrase of the time, expressing themselves.
Fortunately this has taken some time to happen but i guess it was inevitable eventually, the yob generation terrorising the UK at the moment is a direct result of the uks obsession with rights without responsibilities. Over the past 20 years it has been thrust ed down young peoples throats that they are untouchable/invincible and that they have a right to exist without consideration or respect for anyone else. The police are powerless the courts are more likely to send a repeat offender to a holiday camp than a prison. Prisons are more like hotels. Punishment for serious crimes is a joke compared to minor crimes. This generation of pond life scumbag chavs are the spawn of another generation of scumbags so you dont stand a chance. Here in Spain the police Carry sticks and it is an offence to be disrespectful to the police. I have seen the police knock yobs to the ground for answering them back. If the UK didn't have such stupid politically correct wankers running the country it wouldn't be in such a state. Too late now i feel that's why I bailed out.
Take them too the morgue to show them what using knives can do, Also they should be allowed too visit the grieving mums of teenagers that have been hurt or killed by this mob culture.
Give them real parents
Aside from beating the snot out of them, which would not go over at all, not much. But making the parents suffer the consequences of their children might make them be a parent.
by trying to control everything they do and constantly telling them what they cant do makes them rebell against the rules and adopt unsocial behaviour such as smoking, drinking drugs etc they think they are being cool and big
Send them all to a form of boot camp for 2 yrs to learn something/trade or whatever mainly they need to control their gimmee gimmee habit...
I don't think you can solve a problem by trying to manage or control one of the symptoms.
You are right. The problem isn't the kids, it's the parents with their lack of respect, manners and discipline.