Teen Supremacy

Teen Supremacy

Author: Ishwarya J

You change from watching Cartoon network to TV series, from enjoying with family to chilling with your friends, from individual studies to combined studies, from sleeping at home to sleepovers at your friend’s place…and the list continues!

The most exciting stage of life to which every kid would look forward to be proudly called as a “TEEN” is “teenage”.

Assumptions are already into picture when you reach teenage because you think that your matured enough to decide what you want but in reality such decisions could lead you on to the wrong track and may affect your future and it’s a general situation that happens in every house.

Revolting to any kind of suggestion from their parents, arguing with them for anything that they would say and wasting their time on unimportant things are what we usually observe teenagers doing.

What are the changes that we observe in teenagers?

Once kids attain teenage they tend to adopt ”freestyle” attitude.

This also may be because of the influence of their friends where they could be indulging in activities like smoking, consumption of alcohol etc. because they feel that they’ve become matured enough and also think that they can take their own decisions because of which more commonly, they wouldn’t listen to their parents and argue with them for everything that they would tell or back answer them.

Practical situations that every teenager has with his parents:

Any advice given by their parents would make them feel irritated and annoyed and you would hear them shouting “I know that!”

Or, if they planned to go for a movie with a couple of friends and if they are asked to do some work when there’s still enough time to leave, we observe them shouting against their parents for not letting them enjoy themselves peacefully!

Also, with a lot of smart phone usage to which most of the teenagers are addicted to they are totally into them forgetting the world around. They don’t have the time to talk to their parents and would back answer them saying “I know what I’m doing”; if they are asked what they are doing.

Undoubtedly, they fight back for most of the things that parents say. Even if they are asked to study without wasting time they get offended by it and again shout back saying “you always ask me to study!”

All of these are quite common but the only thing is that parents are equally encouraging children to do as they wish to.

They give them more freedom only with the intension to see them happy and keep quite even when their children are arguing or answering back to them.

This isn’t how it’s supposed to be because parents should be talking to their children in a peaceful and humble way, so that children feel like listening.

Being friendly with teenagers is not that suggestibleI feel because they might take it as an advantage and become more revolting and arrogant not only towards parents but also with others around them.

What are the steps that parents should take?

Parents should be giving them the freedom only up to a certain extent, they should talk to their children about their academics and their interests in future, and even if they answer arrogantly it is necessary for the parent to speak with complete calmness which will definitely help the children in answering in a better way.

Ultimately, children being arrogant with parents is generally observed in teenage but it shouldn’t be overlooked by parents otherwise, parents will have to answer the society.

Because, teenage is that stage of life where character and maturity level of the child builds which reflects their future.