Skip to main content

Why being an adolescent is hard nowadays ?


Why being an adolescent is hard nowadays ?

Adolescence is a phase of life which is saturated with energy, hope, life, joy, beauty, and passion. 
Today, it is easy to judge the generation of teenagers as being oversensitive, having feelings of entitlement, and being mollycoddled and pampered too much.  What we fail to understand is the dynamics of their bio-psycho-social factors as they are faced with challenges, that determine their reactions and responses.  It's imperative to understand and being considerate of the common teenage issues that can have an effect on an individual's lifestyle, behavior, emotional, and psycho-social well-being. Some of these are:

Continuous revelation & exposure:
While accessing the internet, adolescents gain access to a perennial flow of knowledge and information. Though teenagers can opt out of using it, it would be like telling them to remain confined in a room during their high school days, which is not pragmatic to say the least. They go online and virtually see everything that they want to. Unfortunately, the negative facets of the world-wide-web can have long lasting, detrimental effects on their brains and value systems.

Bullying:
Being bullied at school by peers or by students who are senior to them is common for adolescents, who go to school and more often than not, adversely affects their attendance and grades. In certain cases, bullying can become the cause for grave trauma. In addition to this, social media bullying is 
also unavoidable nowadays.

Puberty & Hormonal Changes
Mood swings among adolescents are heightened due to hormonal changes and because of the onset of puberty. An adolescent may be happy at one point in time and become distraught the very next.

Privacy and Independence
Though adolescents are expected to act with maturity, they tend to be treated like kids. Though they greatly yearn for independence, they are denied the same.

Irrational expectations
Most of the adolescents are faced with damaging expectations such as the fear of failing in an exam, not getting admission into a desirable university, fear of not earning enough money in the future, fear of not landing a job and of not getting respect from society, which usually results in mental health problems like depression & anxiety, along with physical problems such as insomnia, etc.
Already stressed, such teenagers should not be treated harshly by their parents and other relatives. Family members, teachers, and friends should talk to them in an affable manner in order to better understand their feelings and concerns.

Adolescents’ well-being underpins their ability to learn and develop satisfying
relationships and to grow into healthy adults. Appropriate guidance and mentoring
during adolescence can significantly contribute to promotion of positive well-being
and healthy personality development, thereby, preventing development of
maladjusted patterns in adulthood and grounding psychological well-being at the
root level from where most mental health issues stem.

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Career Planning

Career Planning may surface at a later stage of adolescence, however, forms a vital part of one’s development. Career has become an important part in every individual’s life, and many times becomes integral to one’s sense of confidence, happiness and contentment in life. Hence, planning a career and making a move towards it in the right direction, is as important an aspect, as any other aspect of life in the adolescent period. Starting early allows the opportunity to set specific goals and work toward completing those goals with a vision and a purpose. This also enhances one’s confidence and personality. There may be several things for adolescents to consider when planning their career path, such as: Parents play an important role in supporting their adolescents with encouragement and information as they begin their career and life journeys. Evidence supports that when adolescents are in the midst of choosing a career path, it is their parents who have the greatest influence. ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Coronavirus Disease & How it has affected Children

There is no evidence of children being more susceptible to contracting coronavirus disease. Most cases of coronavirus disease which were confirmed and reported in China have occurred in adults. A relatively smaller number of children who were confirmed to have been affected by coronavirus disease in China have shown flu-like symptoms, such as fever, cough and runny nose. Vomiting and diarrhea are other symptoms which have also been reported in very few cases. These limited reports suggest that kids with established coronavirus disease usually exhibit meek symptoms and that acute complications (such as septic shock, acute respiratory distress syndrome, etc.) are very rare. However, as is the case with most respiratory infections, children with underlying health conditions and other such populations of children are at an augmented risk of developing severe infection. There are currently no antiviral drugs recommended for coronavirus disease. Clinical management includes ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Child Absue

Any intentional harm or mistreatment to a toddler underneath 18 years vintage is taken into consideration infant abuse. Child abuse takes many forms, which frequently arise at the equal time. • Physical abuse. Physical child abuse occurs while a baby is purposely physically injured or put at risk of damage by means of any other person. • Sexual abuse. Sexual toddler abuse is any sexual activity with a child, including fondling, oral-genital contact, intercourse, exploitation or publicity to baby pornography. • Emotional abuse. Emotional child abuse approach injuring a child's shallowness or emotional well-being. It includes verbal and emotional assault — along with continually belittling or berati...
Post a Comment
Read more