Suicidal Tendencies are a great danger for children

A lot of parents ignore suicide as a potential threat, because they think that their child is not at risk. Unfortunately that is not the case. Children are one of the highest risk groups for suicide because they haven't built up the necessary coping skills to deal with failure and pressure yet. Because of this, last year more than 132,000 kids aged 15-24 attempted killing themselves. To put this into numbers easier to understand, that's the entire undergraduate population of over a dozen colleges trying to kill themselves every year.

But that's not all...there are an additional 17,000 suicide attempts made by kids aged 10-14. If you want to visualize that, that's the entire student bodied of over 15 middle schools attempting to kill themselves every year.

A large part of the problem is ignorance. Parents simply ignore suicide warning signs because they don't even know that suicide is a threat. They pass it off as "oh he is just being a kid", until they come home one day to find their child dead.

In fact 75% of all suicides, will even go as far as giving you a verbal warning sign, it won't be as simple as "mom/dad I'm going to kill myself tomorrow", but looking back you will always remember the words that could have helped you save your child's life. Unfortunately these verbal warning signs will almost always get ignored since for most parents suicide is not even on their radar. They think that the kid will just "get over it"...well the sad news, is that for a lot of them that is simply not true. The parent's ignorance just becomes another factor in favor of suicide. It will just confirm to the child the fact that no one will miss them (not even their parents) when they are gone... leading them to go through with their intention to kill themselves.

Luckily almost all suicides will exhibit at least some form of warning signs before they go through with it. The best way to prevent a potential suicide in children is to get informed on all the possible suicide warning signs, so that you can be aware when the child becomes suicidal and can step in and save their life.