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Straight From The heart of A Teen Dilemma - Author - Stuti Kwatra, Class IX The age of adolescence, the so-called “Golden Age”. So, here I am going to focus on what sorts  of problems are faced by us adolescents or rather known “teens”. First, parents start expecting  things from their children as they grow. We teens get a lot of parental pressure and get frustrated.  Some thoughts that commonly come to a child’s mind are, “Why am I suddenly a responsible  one?” “Why do I have to study so hard?” “Why can’t I text my friends instead of studying?”  Apart from this, we get a lot of peer pressure and get pressurized by our friends. Take an example - if the friend gets good result on a particular assignment and a child scores low, he gets  pressurized and his confidence level drops. If a child’s friend goes out for a party and he is not  able to, the child starts blaming his parents, while parents only would want their child to be safe. ...

I was pushed into writing the '   Top ten problems teenagers face ' after I attended a school program, where I had the opportunity to interact with other parents of teenagers. The normal flow of conversation was in the form of complaints about raising teenagers. I could see that each parent was only adding one more item to the list of complaints. I searched the net - the result wasn’t much different... it was mostly about how to… get your teen to clean their rooms, handle behavior that is  rebellious   or   aggressive ,   problematic teens , defiant teenagers, out of control teenagers , make them more responsible etc … This got me thinking, and I concluded that what we need today is to look at the problem in a different light.. Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love - Zig Ziglar The teenage years, most people agree, can be one of the hardest times in a person's life. Many teens feel misunderstood. They may struggle from depressio...