Help with teenagers

[Redhatter]

Mentoring young people is very effective, if you could access a private mentoring program to work with your teenager to work on anger management, low self esteem or aggressive behavior to name a few topics, would you?

Possibly... it would depend on cost.

Cost, qualifications, reputation of those involved.
I'd be wary of being scammed by 'consultants' whose prime objective was to be commercially viable, and drawing from a pool of desperate parents who had presumably already been failed by the counselling services available.

Thank you for your comments - I agree with being positively sure of who would potentially working with your DD & DS.

If the company had proven record, qualifications and recommendations for schools and other parents would that make a difference in approaching? Also mentoring is not counselling and any mentor worth their salt should refer if a young person was showing signs of needing more than they can offer. Would being able to refer as parents beneficial?

We have learning mentors within school whose job is to work with children deemed vulnerable or in need of particular support for one reason or another.
They work usually 1:1 or occasionally 1:2
What sort of mentoring were you thinking of?

The type of mentoring would be young person led, so the ownership of their behaviors is theirs. Working through issues together, offering practical advice. Often found teenagers know the appropriate way to behave yet at times lack confidence in change.

Maryz - I agree completely most teenagers are good kids! I feel quite naive at the thought of somebody scamming parents through their kids! Mentoring in schools does work although the child has to have been noticed enough to receive help in the first place. Many thanks for your comments - gave me lots to think about.