From the perspective of the parents---

The parents are busy in their day to day business and hence due to lack of time, control, and patience they start scolding the child as it is the instant solution for them. Some stories no one would like to hear- Anita, mother of a 13-year-old girl in Calcutta didn't have any inkling of how grave a damage she was wreaking when she scolded her daughter for the umpteenth time about talking to her boyfriend instead of studying for her exams. The girl hanged herself.

Somewhere in the corner of their heart the parents have this fear that their child may be hanging out with the ‘wrong crowd’.16-year-old Diya from Chandigarh, complains: "You can't just lock us up and say we are trying to protect you. Chandigarh teenager Natasha Singh wants her parents to talk to her: "Instead of clamping down on me, I wish my parents would discuss things with me. They are not comfortable talking about things, except that I shouldn't be drinking, smoking, fooling around with boys... all for reasons of health."

They have their share of fun and I am having fun with my friend." Seeking permission never helps anyway.

We know that behavior do change over time. Behavioral intent and behavior must be measured at the same time for us to expect that they will relate. Reasoned action states that attitudes, together with subjective norms, determine behavioral intent. This means that if a person’s attitude changes, his or her behavioral intent will probably change to. So, if we try to change people’s behavioral intent and then wait to measure.

We still do believe that every parent want their child to live a better life then of theirs. In doing so parents face problems like --

At this age the children strive for freedom and independence and do not want any bodies’ control. They want to live in the life of their own. The children start asking for the right to make his own choices. To make such choices they start arguing with their favorite statement ‘everybody is doing like this’. Till up to now the child was taking directions from the parents but now he start taking directions from the surroundings. Being aware of the behavioral change, parents still dislike this and start terming their children as ‘disobedient’. Now the child feels misunderstood and a gap start forming which widens as the time moves on. To escape the situation the child start telling lies and a vicious circle is formed. Being misunderstood the child starts isolating himself from parents and society because they are very self conscious and highly sensitive. They feel more comfortable with the people who give they consider understand them better. At this stage the children are looking for their position in society. But according to them their society is only constrained to their peers. To establish the position among their peers they start to exaggerate and once this exaggeration leads them to make an identity and proved that it helps, they repeat on others to continue the legacy. Now they are trapped in their own woven web and unknowingly it becomes a habit and slowly transforms to a very prominent habit of lying. They don’t find anything wrong in it because they are getting the instant result and serves them until their lie is caught. And once lying becomes a habit, it could not be erased easily so the better idea is to stop it at the right age.

This is the time when they need help, support, and advice in the right direction regarding all the above problems. This time is really very crucial because their future is going to be transformed on the basis of what they choose today, not for the professional person but as a person, as a son, as a friend, as a social being and later on as parents.

From the perspective of the children---

This is the right age to take a child through this understanding because at this age a lot of physical and psychological changes happen. Out of which physical change can be visible but psychological changes are hard to observe. At this age -

1. Concerns about value increases
2. Day dreaming becomes prominent
3. Emotions become unstable
4. Family ties loosens
5. Friendship begins to displace family relations
6. Independence, privacy and personal space becomes a major issue
7. Physical appearance becomes a concern
8. Mood swings grow more frequent and dramatic
9. Reasoning ability expands
10. Rebellious behavior is more common
11. Risk taking increases & Self esteems become fragile.

Children use Indirect awareness (observing from the surroundings) to establish their values.
We build a very strong value system based on reasoning (analyzing phenomenon) and enlighten them with direct awareness (established knowledge).