Parents needs to be alert with the activities of their children until they get to adulthood
But in all prayer is the strongest weapon
Prayer will not solve everything, in raising a good child, a parent need to be committed to the task especially when the child is still very young because that is a very delicate stage and age to learn the good and bad, and because the bad can easily be learnt, every parent need to be careful and watchful of the kind of friends their children keep and also be watchful of the kind of movies and television program that they watch. As a parent, you need to draw your child close, so that they will be able to talk to you when they are confused, so that they will not make bad decisions in life.
As a child is growing it is the utmost duty of the parents to direct his or her path, I know that juvenile delinquency must occur but before then the patent has a lot of role to play, if it is the female child, the mother has to mentor her on sex education which is very important, as a mother don't shy away from the needful because if you do, you will find yourself to be blamed, most time adolescent age has a lot of effect in children because if hormonal changes and this changes are inevitable, so what people should do at this point as parents is to make sure the monitor their children advice them on the need to be well behaved so that they can reflect positively to the society and also pray for them while doing this.