Teens
The words teenager and rebellion often seem indistinguishable. Here is an interesting quotation I came across which describes "Teenage Rebellion": "Our youth now love luxury, they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders, and love to chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers."
The above extract may accurately describe today's teenager, but this quote was actually written by Socrates, who lived between 470 BC and 399 BC; and you thought that today's teenagers are bad. Truly, teenage rebellion has been around for a long time.
Most teenagers, at some time in their lives, will openly defy the advice and authority of their parents and other figures of authority. Rebellion is one of the major issues families deal with everyday. We will not be accurate in saying that the "attitude change" parents see in their teens is directly their fault, yet we will also be wrong in saying that it's not the parents fault. Yes, it is puzzling, but that's a bit about "Teenage Rebellion" for you.
Most of the parents are worried about their teenager and the various changes that occur in them. The teenagers, at their age, seem to become extremely aware of the worlds good and bad effects. They feel more conscious and so want to make their own decisions, thinking that they can make them suitably; but since the parents, in their experience, want to guide their children, the teen gets angry and irritated. Due to this the teens feels that they do not get enough freedom.
So, basically, a "need for freedom" is generally felt among these adolescents. The teenagers crave the freedom to speak their minds openly, to make their own decisions, to be able to do what they want without first consulting their parents, to be able to go out with other people without getting those long lectures, to be able to decide what kind of a friend group they should have, to be able to ask for more money without giving reasons for it. The list goes endlessly long!
Teens generally share the feeling that their parents do not have confidence in them and their abilities. This too, is a growing and commonly found issue amongst the teenagers of our modern society. This feeling generally arises when the parent "but in's" into a decision made by the adolescent or maybe even if the parent angrily overrules a decision made by a teenager.
Let me exhibit this by means of an example. Assume that a teenager, maybe your own teenage son or daughter, is trying to decide what he or she wants to become when they grow up. Just then, the parent only trying to help, comments, "You should get into the IIT. It's the best thing." Such a statement will definitely irritate the youngster and will cause sour feelings to arise within the teen, towards the parent. He or she may think, "I hate them… they just want me to continue to live like THEIR puppet! I swear, ill do anything but IIT!!!"
Now, say that a child has decided to become a doctor and assume that the parent was thinking of pushing the child towards IIT. The situation will be something like this:-
The child goes to the parents and says, "I have decided that I want to be a doctor when I grow up." The parent looks shocked. The parent knows that getting into IIT will be the best thing for the child. The parent says, "No! You are doing IIT." The child angrily replies, "But I have decided to…" the parent angrily cuts in, "Who are you to make decisions? Huh?"
From the above extract we can see that none of the parties actually want to cause any anger, though it is created and bitter feelings are caused to erupt between the child and the parents. Such bitterness and anger cause the teenager to "revolt" with their parents or their guardians. The child here revolts by arguing and shouting back at their parents so as to attain what they feel is right.
Sometimes a child revolts when the parents always seem to show that they do not believe that the assessment of the teenager is correct. Let's look at this by means of an example. Let's say that the parents and the child are going out on a drive. Now let's also assume that the parent says, "There is no place on the way, where we can stop for some coffee." But the child seems to know a place on the way where they could get coffee. So the child says, "No dad, there is a coffee shop on the way!" The father gets angry at being overruled by a child. Then he says angrily, "NO! There is no such place." "But…" begins the child, but is cut across by the furious father, "When I say NO, it means NO! Who is more experienced; tell me - you or me?"
Now let's discuss some of the seemingly ominous changes that abruptly appear in the "Modern Day Teen". Parent's today could probably write a book, listing all theses changes. You see, the child finds it difficult to communicate with his parents and so tries to find people they can relate to. The teen finds only one such source – friends. So the teen now wants to be in constant touch with their friends, who too are facing the same problem as they presently are. So the children "chat" online and on their cell phones. This becomes very important for them, so as to dispose of the stress which often causes teenagers to revolt. Therefore, parents find that their child spending more time online and on their cell phone than with their families or perhaps, on their studies!
At the time of these changes, the child also seems to have stopped following the orders given by their parents or their guardians. This is all a part of their "REBELLION". When decisions are made against their will they will revolt in any way possible. If the child's decisions is overruled and is replaced by new ones, then the teenager starts to rebel. The teenager is tired of being treated as a "small kid
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