Author’s Note

Not long ago, I was a teenager and I made my own many small mistakes. I was lucky, my mistakes were not grave, so I could eventually pursue a career, but not many would be as lucky as I am.

Millions of youth languish in jails, others roam the streets in frustration because they have no vocation to offer as means of livelihood, some are chained down in sanatorium/psychiatric hospitals, a result of drug abuse, while a huge percentage are going to die from HIV/AIDS.

 My teenage years experiences showed that young adults are naïve, obstinate, and do not readily appreciate problems associated with pre-marital sex, drug abuse, and other extreme juvenile adventures until eventually the consequences hit them in the face, then it is too late.

 I want you to enjoy this book, learn, and then become the architect of your destiny. The core of the book is behavioural change, with a media of intervention. We must change our attitude to that of a careful, obedient, and target driven youth. Our target is a future where we will be HIV/AIDS free, and at the top of our chosen career.

Teenagers need lots of help from adults to have a good future, and that adults must give in good time before it is too late.  Teenagers or young adults also must seek the help. This is my contribution towards making a new generation that will be an asset rather than a liability.

Here I must say that making the right decisions is critical to the future of young adults and their country in a period where HIV/AIDS, unwanted pregnancies, drug abuse, loose morality, bad associations and many other vices increasingly ruin their education/careers before they even get started.

Peer pressure, the need to be ‘cool’ or ‘hip’ and experimenting with dangerous behaviours, has degenerated many promising youths’ life into misery and thwarted their future.

Efforts have been made to involve adults and parents, who need to know how to approach the problems associated with adolescents. Thus the final part of the book is a help segment for the parents and guardians, and even teachers on how to deal with the young adults. We have to make them come to us for help, rather than allow them unknowingly find where they will have misinformation.

Finally, I wish to thank everyone around me -my family and my friends.

Thank you all.

‘Bode Keshinro