Life of a Teen: Expectations
Life is a roller coaster of emotions and situations. As a teen, we are expected to do a lot and know a lot. We are supposed to try to figure out what to do with our lives, and figure out who we are going to be as a person. We have many influences on our lives, but some steer us in different directions. As a teen, we are pulled in so many different directions we don’t know where to go. From our parents, we are supposed to act like adults and do whatever possible to help, even if there is nothing to do. Our parents expect us to go to school, get good grades, act in a proper manner, and do whatever they tell us to do. They expect all of this from us as an adult, but yet they still treat us like a child.
From our teachers, they also expect a lot. I mean we have eight classes and each teacher expects me to do all the homework that they assign. From each class we get about 30 minutes of work, which doesn’t seem to bad. But once you add 8 classes with that amount of work and only have a little time to do it, you do become very stressed and tired from staying up too late working on it. Plus they expect us to stay awake during their class to learn their information, but since we were up late working on their homework it is pretty much counter productive.
From our friends, we are expected to act a certain way around them and act like them. If you don’t you won’t be friends. But you want to stay in with the cool people so you conform to them. We start dressing certain ways, talking certain ways, and acting certain ways that may not be how we would normally act. As a teen, we need help guiding ourselves down the right path, but not with too much influence that it pushes us in the wrong way. It all has to be a gentle balance.
