A 16-year-old Arab teenager hired at the Dubai Police International Protection Center to regain the trust of his parents, who dealt with him sharply and with extreme extremism, after admitting to smoking cigarettes. The best solution, to avoid the aggravation of any problem related to delinquency of children.
Al-Khayyat told Emirates Today that the teenager resorted to his parents when his friend was in school because of a health crisis because of smoking, which doubled his fear and anxiety, and pushed him to frankness with his parents smoking cigarettes to help him quit, but was surprised by a violent reaction, represented in Confiscating his phone, closing his personal accounts on social media sites, depriving him of the expenses, putting him under tight control, penetrating his privacy at home, in addition to rejecting and ignoring him in front of his brothers at home, and psychologically violating him in humiliating and cruel terms.
He added that the son's confession to his parents to smoke marked a negative turning point in his life, because they were extremely punitive, and the father acted violently, while his mother refused to listen to him because he was disappointed, and as a result was deprived for a year of his expense and freedom and became a watchman around the clock, as The confiscation of his phone and the low level of respect among his brothers to the lowest levels, and was not allowed to go out of the house with his friends and imposed isolation at home.
He pointed out that he knew the problem of the teenager accidentally, when he was with members of a protection team at a school to hold awareness sessions, and approached by a student, and asked for advice in the face of a family problem without telling his parents, to prevent the aggravation.
Al-Khayat continued: «I promised the student to help him in complete confidentiality, and after the presentation of his suffering, I felt a great hesitation, and felt that he regretted the frankness of his parents, and came to the point of feeling repressed and the desire to rebellion and revenge for his dignity, and in return felt that there is a possibility to promote positive emotions, Encouraging him to regain his parents' trust, he personally made sure to visit him in his school, being the only means of communication between us, and planted hope in himself, and provided him with psychological and moral support, and asked him to be more patient and enduring, and strive to win the love and respect of his family again, and to move away About bad friends.
Over time these efforts paid off, and there was a positive development in the adolescent's relationship with his parents, as his mother showed something soft, and intervened to persuade his father to renew confidence in him, and give him another chance.
Al-Khayat stressed the need not to exaggerate the punishment of children, and to try to accommodate them and contain them positively, rather than violence that breeds only hatred, aversion and rebellion, and the easy drift towards addiction and bad friends.
He said: "We must help our children to return to the right path again, and guide them and guide them to what is good and safety, and to help them overcome any problems or challenges that may face them in school, university or public places," stressing that cruelty does not work For example, shouting and beating stripped children of their dignity, and compounded their desire for revenge through stubbornness, insistence on error, and perhaps escape from the house, and committing crimes.
He added that given the importance of the role of the family in the face of addiction and crime in general, one of the themes of the "Protection Clip" award was allocated to highlight how the family deal with children, if they are caught in the clutches of addiction, or face any problems.
Hamaya communicated with the teenager and provided him with psychological support to overcome his ordeal.