As a hormonal teen-age girl,
my parents don’t really understand me, and I know I’m not the only one who
feels this way. They we’re this age once right? So why don’t they understand
how we feel? We never really look at the fact that we come from a different more
technologically advanced era, but that really shouldn’t matter when it comes to
them understanding the way we feel right?
As teen-agers we’re expected to do so much and then get a
huge lecture when we forget about an assignment or bomb a test. It is like we
have all the responsibilities of an adult, but we’re still treated as adolescents;
we have jobs to pay for the gas in our cars and we buy our own clothes and we
drive our siblings to school, ext. but at the same time we have to be home at a
certain time and get good grades. And that’s really hard to manage, especially
if you also want to have a social life or sleep for that matter. We get pushed
and pushed and pushed and when we finally break down, when we’ve finally had
enough, when we can’t take any more pressure, when our grades start to drop, we
get a huge lecture or get grounded which makes us want to curl up into a ball
and cry or yell at the fact that they don’t understand how hard they’ve been
pushing us all this time. There’s a point when we need a break or we will break
and parents usually don’t understand that.
I know that our parents just want what’s best for us, but
it’s so hard to see it that way when we just feel pushed. High school is supposed
to be fun right? Not all parents are like this, but some are. It’s hard to live
up to the standards of our parents and our society, let alone at the same time.
Sometimes we just need a break, or maybe a little encouragement, but a lecture
isn’t going to make us want to do better. So I’ll leave you with this, parents,
when your child is getting bad grades or being a teen-ager and you want to rip
their head off, take a step back and think about why they’re acting the way
they’re acting it may be hard but just put yourself in their shoes. It’s much appreciated.
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