Shrayans 10JD
English Mr. Lynn
The Trials and Tribulations of Being a Teenager
The word ‘teenager’ means different things to parents of children and children generally who enter this age group. To some parents it can mean the time when a child matures and becomes more responsible. Some parents think this is a time of a child’s life when they become less responsible than they should be. I think that teenagers become more responsible to what they should do and take their responsibilities seriously like attending school and doing school work to the best of their ability.
I believe that many parents think differently about children coming into their teen years now compared to their own teen years. It is selective memory. If during their teen years they were told to concentrate on studies from their parents then they probably expect you to follow the same thing. My parents think that this is a time in a person’s life when they should concentrate on studies to increase the chances of them being a successful person when they grow up. I think that this is a sensible request from parents because they always think for their children rather than against them. This is where parents of teenagers nowadays have different expectations than of teenagers in the 19th century because in the 21st century it is harder to become very successful because competition is very high in all fields. You have to be quite good at a certain field if you want to succeed. This does not however mean that parental influence affects the decisions made by teenagers. It allows teenagers to have a breadth in the choice that they have to make.
