Nairaland Family,
Please I need your help or advice. My friend little Cousin brother is seriously misbehaving. He is about 15 years old but he has a lot of bad friends that has seriously influenced him. He goes about doing all source of evil things. Please what can we do to redeem him?? Thank you and God bless you guys.

Is it possible to change his environment?

I will advice you leave him alone

the consequences will hit him soon

hunt him for the rest of his life,and others will learn from his action

so don't stress, he's just someone's lesson

Please don't leave him alone
He needs serious discipline, monitoring and mentoring at this stage

Sit him down and talk to him always, encourage him, take him to eateries and hangout, and beat the hell out of him when he mess up

If you guys let him lose himself to those friends at that age, I'm afraid he will be difficult to come back...

Why is he not living with his parents?

When you say misbehaving badly,what do you mean?

Typical growing male,

While their female counterparts are mostly sleeping around. Since there is no much stigma on these ones sleeping around, their greatest vices are; smoking, drinking, drug abuse, cultism, yahoo yahoo... etc.

They hardly ever listen.

-Till SARS touch im body.
-They lose a friend to that lifestyle.
-They get to outgrow that phase.
-They see their mates doing meaningful things with their lives.

Some would even continue like that till adulthood.

You can only talk to him. Be a model brother, someone he can look up to and talk to without fear of being judged.

Make him your friend. Sometimes we don't listen to these kids and they go outside for that support. You can also consider changing his environment.

change his location

talk to him and don't try to force him. there are some people who learn from experience while some learn from people experience

Reset button is required here.
either you let him be and let him learn from his lifestyle or you set trap for him and he sees the consequences of his lifestyle.

Is his father / father-figure in his life?

Change his environment.

lilmax:
I will advice you leave him alone
the consequences will hit him soon
hunt him for the rest of his life,and others will learn from his action
so don't stress, he's just someone's lesson

And this will benefit who exactly?

lilmax:
I will advice you leave him alone

the consequences will hit him soon

hunt him for the rest of his life,and others will learn from his action

so don't stress, he's just someone's lesson

I think you should search proverbs 19:18.
Discipline your child while there is hope and do not set your heart on his destruction. Leaving him to the consequence, makes you a major stakeholder to his destruction.

He definitely needs a role model. Be friends with him. If there is a older male in the household where he lives, that person could serve as a father figure for him. Let this person build a relationship with him. Don't be too pushy or aggressive about the whole thing, and don't try to know every single thing going on with him in one day. If you do that, he will see you as a busy body and a poke nose, that puts teenagers off. Give him his space and still ensure that he understands he can always approach you. That way you can get to know what is going on in his life and help him deal with it. Depending on the intensity of the situation, you might have to relocate him. But before you do that ensure you scan the environment he is to be relocated. Check if the necessary factors her in place, otherwise you will only get a replication of what you already have before you.

It may just help to take him to a juvenile home or the prison for a visit, you Know, let him see practically.

Then you have to put smart discipline in place. Ensure you do it with love.